25 — Nationalise the government

With climate disasters looming, we pick apart the Labor party's anaemic response. Then we chat about ideological cuts to the ABC and the right-wing media's take on Victorian Covid spikes.   Climate backslides

• Labour party leader Anthony Albonese has indicated he is willing to give up on pushing for climate action from the Liberals.
• Chevron’s carbon capture project Gorgon… didn’t work.
• Lang was right about Gorgons though.
• A National Audit Office report concludes that the Morrison government has failed it’s duty to protect the environment.
• 80% of federal environmental approvals were non-compliant with regulations or contained errors.
• Australia’s Reserve Bank has warned that inaction on climate change will cause GDP to drop 25% by 2100.
• The Government has cut funding from renewable energy research at CSIRO.
• …while the ABC makes cuts to the national emergency emergency broadcasting that was essential to saving lives during the 2019-20 bushfires.

Shorts in the arctic

• Temperatures reached 38° degrees in the Arctic this week, the highest ever recorded.
• Warming poles means more extreme weather all over the world.

Cutting the news

• The ABC has cut 250 jobs, and the flagship news bulletin, after losing almost a billion in funding since 2014.
• ABC Executives are still taking multi-million-dollar salaries and payouts.
• Scott Morrison insists that there are no cuts.
• ABC management is moving to sell their main headquarters… then rent it back?

Talking about distance

• Victoria is experiencing a second spike in Covid infections.
• The Victorian government’s crisis communication subcontractor was only asked to use languages other than English on Monday.
• The conservative media has been desperately trying to push a “BLM Bump” theory to case increases (unsupported by the facts).
• Now the conservative media wants to place the blame on immigrant families, with articles like “Diversity and death”.
• The COVIDSafe app has 6 million downloads, has been used to detect zero cases.

Actions

• Join the call to raise the age of criminal responsibility from 10 to 14.
• Wear a dang mask when you go to the shops.