Billapalooza 2020

Shrugging towards apocalypse

• Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been excluded from the recent UN climate summit.
• Morrison has backflipped on the governments use of “Kyoto carryover credits” as an accounting trick to get out of climate targets.
• Australia’s catastrophic bushfires had a slight cooling effect on the global climate.
• At Australia’s current rate of emissions reduction, we’ll hit zero by the year 2300.
• Wish granted, Lang.

Cashless welfare

• The LNP government is pushing through a cashless welfare card for the NT.
• The government’s own research shows the card doesn’t work.
• Pauline Hanson declared that those on the welfare system have given up their rights as humans.
• Jacqui Lambie continues to be a problematic fav.
• Rachel Siewert continues to an unproblematic fav.
• Senator Stirling Griff was a last-minute no-show to the welfare card vote, allowing the bill to pass.
• The Labor party are just a loose sloshing bucket of double-negatives.

Cyber cops

• Laws introduced by Peter Dutton allow for sweeping new online powers for police.
• Labor tried to introduce amendments to the bill, but failed and wave it through anyway.
• The bill will allow police to take over and impersonate people’s online accounts.
• …and introduces powers to reveal journalist’s sources.
• During debate on the bill Peter Dutton labeled Greens Leader Adam Bant an “enemy of the state”.
• The Cristchurch shooter could have been stopped if the AFP took far-right threats seriously.

Breaking up the CFMEU

• The government has passed a bill to make it easier for the CFMEU to break up.
• Secondary and solidarity strikes are illegal in Australia.
• In good news, wage theft will become a criminal offence, under certain conditions.