Commission impossible

Royal commissions all the way down

• Australia’s latest Royal Commission into the 2019-20 bushfire season has been released.
• Australia leases most of our aerial firefighting aircraft from overseas.
• This is just the most recent inquiry. Since the year 2000, there have been over 200 inquiries into disasters, mostly bushfires.
• During the 2019-20 bushfires, the conservative media and politicians spent a much of their time trying to falsely pin blame on arsonists.
• David Littleproud, Minister for Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management, says the government will look into it.

ANZoinks, climate change is real

• Australian Bank ANZ (not the bank laundering money for alleged pedophiles) has released some weaksauce climate divestment policies.
• Ghoul of the week David Littleproud got mad, calling for a boycott of ANZ.
• Nationals leader Michael McCormack called the move “virtue signalling”.
• The National party position themselves as pro-farmer, but mostly value coal.
• Minister for Resources Kieth Pitt says the banks should paying attention to the banking royal commission instead of “playing eco-warrior”.
• Labour Shadow Minister for Resources Joel Fitzgibbon is talking from the same talking memos as the LNP.

Opposition party for the Liberals

• After an intra-party dust-up, Labor has caved to climate-change denier Joel Fitzgibbon.
• Labor MP Ged Kearney says “gas will be a transition fuel as necessary”.
• Labor Leader Anthony Albanese reckons the government should listen to the experts.

Not cleaning up

• An IBAC hearing has revealed that during the Covid lockdown, Transclean paid off V/Line executives to not clean trains.

Actions

• Tell the politicians responsible for the destruction of the Djab Wurrung trees what you think.
• Listen to interviews with Senator Lidia Thorpe on the Auspol Snackpod and 7am podcasts.
• Change your bloody bank.