All COP26 are bastards

Minimum wage news

• The Fair Work Commission has ruled that farm workers must be paid a minimum wage!
• This means that some workers are entitled to an 830% pay rise.
• Shoutout to the Australian Workers Union for bringing this complaint.
• Minister for Agriculture David Littleproud (who previously worked as an Agribusiness Banker) says he’s mostly worried about supermarket prices.

Slimeball news

• Victorian Liberal MP Tim Smith got incredibly drunk and smashed his car into a house.
• Liberal party leader Mathew Guy asked his mate to not recontest the next election, but not to resign just yet.
• Behind the scenes, Tim Smith pushed against conversion therapy within the Liberal party.
• Federal Liberal party members are urging Tim Smith to stay in politics.
• He’s said now he won’t recontest the next election.

Inaction news

• Scott Morrison went to the COP26 conference and yelled at an empty room.
• His speech was full of bullshit.
• At the 2009 Paris Conference, rich countries pledge $100 billion to developing countries to help them build resilience to climate change. None has been given.
• Angus Taylor went there to push for carbon capture.
• Australia brought a Santos-sponsored display to the climate conference.
• Morrison likened climate change to Coronavirus, saying we’ll be saved by new technologies.
• Shame the government has massively cut funding for energy research.
• Labor is selling totes about it.
• They also want to give the government “the room” to arrive at a policy in his own time.
• Simon Kofe, a minister in Tuvalu highlighted the folly of the big nations, speaking half-submerged in water.
• Madagascar is paying the price for cheap flights and high emissions.