108 — Manchoofian Candidate
Feb 23, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 108
Episode description
Australia's largest coal power plant is shutting down early, Scott Morrison is good at diplomacy, and Grace Tame is cool.
On the tools
- Scott Morrison, welding expert.
- The biggest coal power plant in Australia is shutting 7 years early!
- They specifically avoided telling energy minister Angus Taylor about the plans.
- The Australian government has fought hard to keep fossil fuel plants spewing in the past.
- Angus Taylor is pissy about it.
- Of course, because the government refuses to consider any kind of transition, it’s the workers who lose.
- It’s not all good news… the mostly-Labor state governments are spending millions to prop up coal power plants.
- Scott Morrison used the commemoration address for Kevin Rudd’s apology to Indigenous people to tell them they should forgive settlers.
- As The First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria say, “get in the bin”.
- Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton are going hard on their “Labor is secretly working for China” narrative.
- The head of ASIO is now doing the media rounds saying “please don’t”.
- Labor MPs having been going off chops on TikTok.
- Samantha Maiden writes for news.com.au that Anthony Albonese had spoken a line of Mandarin at a Chinese trade association function.
- The Daily Mail published a photo of former Australian of the Year with a giant BONG.
- Tame released a great open letter eviscerating the media who tried to shit-sheet her.
- Duncan Storrar went on Q&A questioning welfare policies, and had his life dragged through the mud in response.
- Weed is a normal, popular thing in Australia.
- Liberal MP Dave Sharma posted that he’s “sure there’s a photo of me like that”, but has consistently voted for drug testing welfare recipients.
- Meanwhile, almost 70 thousand australians were arrested for weed possession.
- Pay the Rent! There’s a way to actually make reparations.
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