• Celeste Liddle is running for the Greens in the seat of Cooper.
• The 1988 bicentenary protests — first nations people and supporters protested 200 years of colonialism.
• Celeste has a history of unionism, an Organiser for the NTEU.
• Without reparations, what good was Rudd’s apology to the Stolen Generations?
• Why do so many of the radical left participate in “speedrunning”?

• Volunteer, host a placard or donate to help Celeste’s campaign.
• Come to the the Celestival at the Tote! It’s gonna be sick.

• At Melbourne’s Flower and Garden show, see “Coming soon”, a garden built around the theme of climate change.
• The flooding in Queensland and NSW: It’s real bad.
• Lismore’s flood warning system didn’t work, because it was still damaged from the flooding three weeks ago.
• The NSW government has proposed cutting stamp duty for people leaving flood-effected areas.

• Liberal senator Concetta Fierravanti-Wells used her retirement speech to attack Scott Morrison and is not fit to be Prime Minister.
• In 2020 Fierravanti-Wells pushed conspiracy theories stating that the bushfires were created by eco-terrorist arsonists. Then voted against any kind of climate resilience measures.
• In 2007 she attended a Croatian neo-nazi event.
• And in 2014 asked Craig Kelly to attend that same event on her behalf.
• Scott Morrison has denied that in 2007 he claimed his preselection opponent was a “moslem”.
• Jim Malo: “being racist doesn’t preclude you from public life, in 2009 or now”.
• Former Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett is proud of his golliwog collection.

• Australia loves buy-now-pay-later services.
• Australian Venue Co let you buy for a parma with four easy payments.
• Payday loan lenders are also getting into the area.
• New buy now pay later service FUPay is letting you buy milk, petrol and rent and pay it off later.
• FUPay are also pitching themselves as a tool for employers to micromanage their employee’s money.
• FUPay’s headquarters are in the same building as Indue, the company that manages cashless welfare cards. A real nexus of evil.

• The government is giving $420 in additional tax offsets to lower income earners.
• If you do a winners and losers breakdown, lol that’s fake.
• The best form of welfare is a job, and the best type of rental support is buying a house.

• Volunteer for a better political party.

• Angus Taylor has spent a billion dollars on “sham” carbon credits.
• Whistleblower Andrew Macintosh says many parts of the carbon offsets system are a scam.
• Andrew Macintosh has been replaced by former fossil fuel lobbyist David Byers (we’ve talked about him before).
• Under the Gillard government, Australia’s emissions actually went down.
• What’s the go with Angus Taylor anyway?

• Protestors from Blockade Australia are continuing to disrupt coal company operations.
• Emma Dorge went on morning TV show Sunrise while hanging from a pole above a train line.
• Sunrise’s “Cool the Globe” initiative was sponsored by Origin Energy.

• Shoutout to The Greens! They’ve announced some cool new policies, like free university, and dental into Medicare.
• Shoutout too to Joe Hockey for fighting for free university too (before stripping it for parts).
• Blockade Australia are running actions from 27th of June - July 2nd.
• Change your god damn electricity provider!

• The election in South Australia saw large swings against the Liberals. The new Premier said some okay things.

• The federal court has found that the Environment Minister doesn’t have a duty of care to protect children from climate change after all!
• The judges had a lot of good legal reasons why we should ignore the fact that the government has blood on it’s hands.
• Climate change-lover Joel Fitzgibbon loves this.
• Climate scientist Peter Kalmus on the need to take risks.

• Scott Morrison says Australia is becoming a harder place to live. I wonder who did that?
• Guess he’s just moving through the stages of climate change denial.
• Scotty also reckons we should run coal power plants for as long as possible!

• Speak up when you can! Find your community. It’s not your job but you’ve gotta do it anyway.

• Australia’s nuclear submarines would “inevitably” be forced to shut down by peacenik Queensland jellyfish.
• In 2006 the US Supercarrier Ronald Reagan was owned by 800kg of jellyfish.

• Flood disaster relief payments are different, depending on your electorate.
• Meanwhile, crowdfunding campaigns outstrip traditional charities.
• The Ballina hospital was evacuated and relocated, by staff and volunteers.
• …the Defence Force turned up nine days later.
• The Prime Minister’s visit to flood-effected areas avoided media questions, but brought his personal photographer.

• Talk to a neighbors.
• Save yourself from reading, listen to a podcast instead.

• The second part of the 6th IPCC report has been released. This one is about the social cost of climate change.
• UN President António Guterres: “I’ve seen many reports, but nothing like the new IPCC climate report, an atlas of human suffering”.
• The government response: Ignoring it.
• Except for Pauline Hanson, who’s happily denying that climate change exists.
• On a plus side, Victoria has announced a massive new offshore wind project to replace our aging coal plants.

• The flooding in Queensland & NSW: It’s real bad.
• The Lismore Maccas, completely underwater.
• The government has $5 billion sitting in a federal disaster fund, and just isn’t spending it.
• With local media closing, the ABC running on a rapidly shrinking shoestring budget, people are stuck without news that talks to them.
• But it’s okay, Peter Dutton has started a GoFundMe to help out.
• Dutton recently won $35,000 in damages for a defamation case against refugee activist Shane Bazzi.
• Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk: “Let’s face it, it is climate change. I have never seen so many natural disasters”, but followed with… “Queensland is lucky, we have coal, we have gas”.
• Shane Stone, head of Australia’s disaster relief agency, vacillates on climate change, and blames residents for wanting to “live amongst the gum trees”.

• Cricketer Shane Warne died early Saturday morning.
• He also had some good takes on climate change. “I think we all have to admit now that climate change is a huge issue… Scientists with proven facts are telling us things we can’t dispute about the rising temperatures, the rising sea levels”

• Donate to help out in QLD & NSW: Bundjalung Community Flood Relief, Flood Recovery 2022.
• Read Warmth by Daniel Sherrell.
• Watch Shane Warne: 10 unforgettable deliveries, the Kath and Kim episode.

Instead, tune in to our pals over at Boonta Vista, raising funds for Sikh Volunteers Australia, Lismore SES and Loop Growers Brisbane.

• 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.
• Share the podcast! Leave a review!

• Anthony Albanese reassures the nation that no-one cares if he wins or not.

• Nurses in NSW are striking for better pay and safer conditions.
• The Omicron wave and the withdrawal of government supports has been brutal for health workers.
• The ICU nurse in the US who quit, and encouraged others to do the same.
• Environmental activists win high court case, stopping a new coal mine in the Bylong Valley.
• Victoria has decriminalized sex work!
• We won’t need to worry about inhaling burnt koala noses for too much longer.
• This follows deliberate action from the NSW government to block legislation to project koalas.

• The religious discrimination bill has been withdrawn.
• This follow’s Rebekah Sharkie’s successful amendment to the sex discrimination act that would have prevented the transphobia intended by the original bill.
• Transphobes have taken a sudden interest in “saving women’s sport”.
• Arizona has just passed the “Save Women’s Sports Act”, intended to do exactly the same thing.
• We’ve talked about the Olympics before.

• Western Australia is cut off from the nation, with their only rail link flooded out.
• As a result of this, WA is running out of water treatment chemicals.
• Mining magnate Gina Rinehart has advocated using nuclear bombs to mine iron ore.

• Mitch was on the Drum!
• The Federal government is still pushing their pet “Religious Discrimination” bill.
• The Labor party has said they’ll conditionally support it.
• Citipointe Christian College has made students sign an enrollment form confirming that they are not trans.
• Most Australians don’t even want this thing!

• PM Scott Morrison almost called the situation in aged care homes a crisis.
• The Aged Care minister went to the cricket instead of going to an inquiry on the situation.
• Aged care workers are going to be paid a one-time bonus of $800.
• Listen to a cool podcast called Not Good Enough talk about royal commissions.

• At the big press conference for losers, Scott Morrison was called a psycho.
• Everyone in Canberra hates each other. Malcolm Turnbull calling Mathias Cormann “weak and treacherous”. Post-leadership spill: “It is not over, fight continues, f*** (Morrison).”, Senior minister calling staffer Brittney Higgins “a lying cow”.
• Peter Van Onselen has been named in a bullying complaint at Channel 10.
• Barnaby Joyce’s fiance wrote an article headlined “Coward Cabinet Minister Who Leaked Texts Should Quit”. Later that afternoon texts were leaked showing Joyce calling Scott Morrison a hypocrite and a liar.

• Solidarity with Vanuatuan seasonal worker Sergio, who had wages stolen and organised a strike with fellow workers.
• The Antipoverty Center is running a fundraiser for their Abolish Work for the Dole campaign.
• Isaac’s cute little numbers game.

• Ever year, we see more and more once-in-a-century days for it.

• Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck went to the cricket instead of fronting a committee hearing on his policies.
• Last year, Colbeck didn’t know the number of people who had died under his department’s care.
• Health care minister Stewart Robert doesn’t seem to care that aged care residents are going without food and water.
• Minister for the NDIS Linda Reynolds says participants will be allowed to use their funds to purchase RATs.

• So… it’s basically use your own money to buy RATs.
• Carolyn Campbell-Mclean spent $1300 on RATs and couldn’t get them reimbursed.
• Meanwhile, pharmacies are losing money on the government’s harebrained scheme to allow concession card holders to access tests.

• Outgoing Australian of the year Grace Tame refused to smile for the cameras with Scott Morrison next to her.
• News man Peter Van Onselen chucked a hissy fit about it.

• Meatspill 2: Meating of the Meats

• Josh Frydenburg says industrial action is bad for the economy.
• The Labor party says free RATs are good for the economy.
• Scott Morrison reckons children driving forklifts would be great for the economy!
• Meanwhile, schools are going back, which will be a killer move for the economy!

• Kristina Kersher Keneally reckons Australia should be tougher at the border when it comes to vaccines.
• Never mind that Australia’s pacific neighbors have very low vaccine rates…
• …quite a lot of which is our own fault.
• Australia an China have been digging into a vaccine cold war in the pacific.

• Listen to the Citations Needed episode on GDP fetishism.
• Folding Ideas has a great new video on NFTs.
• Friend of the show Tom Tanuki’s youtube channel is going from strength to strength.
• Anyone heard of this game called Bloodborne? Folks? Is this anything?

• Union leader Sally McManus says that Unions are not launching a pay rise blitz.
• Cool hashtag: #WTFWoolies.
• Meatworks workers are having to wear hairnets to show their covid status.

• Australia may have hit it’s hottest day ever — some places hitting above 50 degree. Time to have fun in the sun!
• Maybe try wearing bathers and a raincoat?
• Part of the area that hit 50 degrees was Roebourne Regional Prison, which has no air conditioning.
• Last year it hit 48 degrees.
• The area where these temperatures are so hot? A massive area for off-shore fossil fuel extraction.
• Meanwhile, the government is sending counterterrorism police to raid climate activists for taking photos of someone else writing chalk messages on a bridge.

• Hillsong held a massive festival under the guise of a religious event, while other festivals and venues close are forced to close without government support.
• Plus attendees were doing shoeys of water, which is incredibly lame.
• Scott Morrison is a devout Pentecostal, an good friends with Hillsong leader Brian Houston.

• Fuck australia day. Donate to Pay the Rent and Sisters Inside.

• Omicron: There’s lots of it around.
• McLean’s book club: The Gone Away World by Nick Harkaway
• Scott Morrison says Jen gets the tests for him.
• …and that “Australians are taking wickets in the virus”???
• RAT tests are simply not available in Australia.

• Listen to the Serious Danger podcast!
• Listen to Class War
• Listen to Eye of the Enemy
• Rex Hunt on Byron hardcore.

• Shoutout to the acts who have supported the boycott of the Sydney Festival and cancelled their acts.
• Watch BDS organiser Jennine Khalik’s interview on the Project.

• Powershop got acquired by Shell.
• Energy Australia cancelled their partnership with Powershop.
• Amber Electric got sassy.
• Shell have said they plan to reach “net zero” by 2050.

• The Labor party have announced a plan to reduce emissions by 43% by 2030 if they are elected. Such ambition!
• They’ve also dumped plans for vehicle emissions standards.
• And worked with the government to hand out more subsidies to gas miners.
• Oh also they worked with the LNP to stifle criticism from charities.

• Change your energy provider again. Sorry. Hopefully it’ll work out next time! Check out Co Power or Amber Electric.
• Listen to A Serious Danger, it’s good!

• A Blockade Australia activist has been jailed for 12 months for stopping a coal train.
• Tough lockdown anti-protest laws are now being used against envionmental protestors.
• WA Premier proposed keeping border checks post-covid to stop drugs.

• The Liberal government have decided to not establish an ICAC, even though they promised :(
• Why on earth are we doing a religious discrimination bill again?
• The Labor party are being incredibly wishy-washy about whether they support it or not, because of course they are.
• Oh hey the Liberal and Labor party also joined forces to give more money to carbon capture (doesn’t work).

• Scott Morrison lied about whether he said he was going on holiday specifically to Hawaii?

• The Melbourne Queer Film Festival were asked to drop a pink-washing Israli film, and join in BDS against the aparthied state.
• They didn’t, saying they wanted to remain “apolitical”.
• The push to remove the film was spearheaded by Queer Palestinians like Lujayn Hourani.
• MQFF co-president Molly Whelan and board member Nayuka Gorrie have resigned over the festival’s decision.

• Former North Melbourne coach Dani Laidley returned to speak at the football club, representing her “old tribe and new tribe”.
• Dani was outed as trans by police, who leaked photos and made transphobic comments.

• The Victorian Pride lobby surveyed 1,500 LGBTIQA+ people to understand their feelings towards police.
• In 2019, police raided queer bookshop Hares & Hyenas, breaking a man’s arm (they also had the wrong address).
• IBAC found it was okay though.
• Get cops out of pride.

• Direct action works. Blockade Australia are repeatedly shutting down train lines from coal mines.
• Blockade Australia are planning a massive disruption in Sydney on June 27th.
• Every Time I Die — People Verses

• Scott Morrison says he has never told a lie in public.
• This follows him backtracking on some of his electric vehicles policies.
• We’re in a “post-reality-based community” world.
• Pauline Hanson’s campaign released a piece of political propaganda. Not gonna link to it.

• Australia scored a big fat zero in Greenhouse Gas Per Capita in the The Climate Change Performance Index.
• Labor’s Chris Bowen framed this as “Australia’s biggest economic opportunity”.
• Ex-Wallabies captain David Pocock compared fossil fuel advertising to cigarette sponsorship.
• The AFLW league is heavily sponsored by BHP.
• The Government’s “Plan” for getting to Net Zero is extremely bad. For one thing it doesn’t even get to zero.
• It’s “slow, lazy and shockingly irresponsible”.
• Meanwhile, Tuvalu is investigating legal ways they can maintain their maritime territories if the island is submerged.

• Solidarity with staff from Better Read Than Dead are back on strike after management reneged on their promises for a new deal.
• Shoutout to the Toll workers who struck in seven warehouses for better pay. They won!
• On the 20th of November, the Campaign Against Racism and Fascism are counterprotesting the antivax nutjobs.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Justin Warren is a board member at Electronic Frontiers Australia. You can follow him on Twitter.

• The Online Privacy Bill Exposure Draft, colloquially known as “the Online Privacy Bill”.
• Draft Restricted Access System Declaration
• Social Media (Basic Expectations and Defamation)
• Privacy Act Review Discussion Paper. We didn’t even get to this one!

• How to write a policy submission.
• How Mastercard uses it’s power to control who can do things online.

• Write some submissions regarding this legislation. You can do it!
• Online Privacy Bill Exposure Draft: Submissions due 6th December.
• Draft Restricted Access System Declaration: Submissions due 23 November.
• Privacy Act Review Discussion Paper: Submissions due 10 January.
• Follow Justin and other good digital rights advocates on twitter: Lizzie O’Shea, Lucie Krahulcova, Sam Floreani.

• Activist Lauren McDonald calling a fossil fuel CEO a mass murderer to his face: Pretty cool!
• She was able to get onto the panel via the Stop Cambo campaign.
• Mia held up the Adani coal line for hours.

• Saudi Arabia has a goal to get to net zero by 2060.
• Bridget “Rorts” McKenzie says it’ll get ugly if Scott Morrison commits to net zero.
• Leaked documents from the next phase of the IPCC report show Australia trying to massage themselves out of the report.

• In an unprecedented move, the government has blocked a recommendation to investigate Christian Porter over his blind trust.
• Porter claims he doesn’t know who put money into the blind trust used to pay for his legal campaign against the ABC.
• By comparison, class action suits are highly regulated and transparent (PDF link).
• In mid-September Porter resigned from the ministry (he remains an MP).
• … which is lucky because now he won’t be investigated for breaching ministerial standards!

• Shoutout to Inner North Medical clinic — working to get vaccinations happening where people need them.
• Listen to Evie’s 3CR interview with Hana Assafiri from the Moroccan Soup Bar on their popup vaccination program.

• News Corp are running a two-week campaign called “Mission Zero”.
• Joe Hildebrand is fronting the campaign.
• Their tabloids ran with “Green and Gold” on their front pages.
• McLean’s deep dive into News Corp’s ongoing climate denial and pushing of gas.
• The News Corp writeup of solar panels is just as bad.
• A part of the their other “Green” coverage, News Corp ran a hit piece on renewables, an exclusive with Gina Rinehart, and a puff piece on Twiggy Forrest.
• Andrew Bolt is big mad (or plays the heel at least).
• Ketan Joshi on the whole News Corp package.

• Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen gave a wild speech to launch the Climate of the Nation Report.
• Victoria Labor is also shit, voting down a Green party bill to prevent drilling for gas near the Twelve Apostles.

• Carn the kids!
• The School Strike for Climate’s demands.

• A Rational Fear podcast.
• The Jokekeeper fundraiser.
• Running billboards in Times Square.
• A Rational Fear had Joe Hildebrand on to continue whitewashing News Corp.
• McLean’s analysis of the episode.

• Shoutout to the AFL Players for Climate Action!

• Police have recognised Traditional Owners’ rights to practise culture on the land where the Adani mine is being built.

• Gina Rinehart made a totally cooked climate-denying speech to schoolchildren.
• Holding the Australian swim team hostage to wish you happy birthday.

• Nationals MP Keith Pitt has proposed that the government establish a $250 billion fund for fossil industries.
• The Business Council of Australia has released a plan to for Australia to reduce emissions. Angus Taylor hates it.
• In 2018 the Business Council called 45% emissions reductions “economy wrecking”.
• Sussan Ley just keeps on approving coal mines, neglecting her duty of care.

• Got a question? Send us an email!
• Get involved in something real!
• Don’t get burned out.

• Former Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop put on a big pink frock.
• Don’t miss the bedazzled safety glasses and tiara hardhat.
• In the 1980’s Bishop worked as a lawyer defending an asbestos producer from worker compensation claims.

• Vanity podcaster Jessica Rowe had Pauline Hanson on her show.
• Chameleonic racist and fraudster Pauline Hanson was instrumental in the destruction of the family court in Australia.
• After posting the link, Rowe made a notes app statement.
• Tracy Spicer’s #metoo activism organisation collapsed under mismanagement and inexperience.
• Bez on wasting time educating folk playing dumb.

• ICAC is investigating Gladys Berejeklian over her relationship with former MP Daryl Macguire.
• Gladys on the FT Power Issue.
• Daryl Macguire destroyed his iPad with a tractor.
• Gladys is now dating her ICAC lawyer??
• She’s also just outright admitted to pork barrelling.
• Malcolm Turnbull’s grandson says Gladyskanda forever.
• The media are so sad that Gladys is gone. The Australian calls ICAC a “lynch mob”, the Daily Mail says she was “knifed by unelected lawyers”.
• In 2020, the media defended Gladys as unlucky in love.
• NSW has not seen a Premier serve a full term since 2003.
• Even left-leaning media like Crikey can’t help themselves: “Gladys Berejiklian — a glittering career undone by two disastrous misjudgments”.
• Progressives just see Gladys as being pushed off the glass cliff.

• Sign the petition to get gender affirming surgery into Medicare.

• Watch Jeffrey Combs in the Frighteners.

• Delivery workers at StarTrack and FedEx have struck for safer conditions.
• Workers from Cadbury and Accolade Wines have also struck for better pay.

• Massive rallies in Melbourne started as legitimate CMFEU worker complaints.
• …but were infiltrated by right-wing agitators.
• And cheered on by “citizen journalists”.
• CMFEU boss John Setka has been accused of domestic violence.
• I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People.
• Conservatism is fundamentally aligned with anti-vax sentiment.
• Tuesday saw protesters going on a long walk around Melbourne, and up the Westgate Bridge.
• This video of the Australian Army band playing Rage Against the Machine is psychic damage.
• On Wednesday, chaos and cookers were in control.
• Interesting side note: the Shrine of Remembrance was built under a work-for-the-dole program.
• The rest of the week featured cop violence, black-bagging and intimidation.
• At the 2019 IMARC protests, police a rode horse through a crowd, crushing a protestor’s legs.

• Shoutout to the cool teens who are running one of the best COVID stats sites on Twitter. Support them on Patreon.
• Follow Lisa on Twitter!
• Listen to the Reanimates podcast for a nice time. Listen to Lang on Reanimates.

• Australia has entered a new military pact with the US & UK to build a couple of new submarines. It’s pronounced “Orcus”.
• We wasted billions of dollars on the Collins class Submarines.
• No one remembers Scott Morrison’s name.
• Scott Morrison called French President Macron the night before the contract was announced. They’re pissed now.
• France is a major provider of military contracts in Australia.
• Nationals MP Matt Canavan is already trying to pivot this into a push for nuclear power.
• The move has also pissed off Indonesia, who canceled a planned visit between President Widodo and Scott Morrison.
• Australia’s very clever defense policy.
• Greens leader Adam Bandt called the submarines “floating Chernobyls”.
• Correction: Lang states that Matt Damon was in Pearl Harbor. This is a common mistake; he was thinking of Jon Voight.

• Police shut down Melbourne’s public transport to put a damper on anti-lockdown protests.
• The protests still happened.
• Construction workers also protested the shutting down of tea rooms.
• The University sector has lost 40,000 jobs since the pandemic started.

• Shoutouts to Joel Fitzgibbon, who is not recontesting the next election in Hunter, but has been highly effective at saying the quiet part loud.

• The Drilled Podcast.
• Not Good Enough Episode 77: Care of Duty: Modern Lawfare

• Jabba the Bus is coming for you.
• What works to Increase Vaccine Uptake (pdf link)

• News Corp have said they’ll “champion net zero emissions” (for two weeks).
• This follows a senate inquiry into the Sky News Covid falsities that led to their channel being suspended from Youtube.
• News Corp is responsible for some of the worst climate misinfo in the world.
• The package will be led by Joe Hildebrand.
• But don’t worry, regular commentators like Andrew Bolt won’t be “muzzled”.
• Net zero isn’t the same as real zero.
• Greta Thunberg calls for real zero.
• Santos is just a friend to coffee shops.

• In reality show The Activist, Usher and Nick Jonas’s wife will judge contestants on how good they make solving the world’s problems sound.
• The show is produced in partnership with advocacy group Global Citizen, which was founded by Hugh Evans, the “Melbourne man with A-listers on speed dial”.
• Global Citizen specializes in running benefit concerts, to dubious effect.
• Australia is finally supporting the TRIPs waiver for COVID vaccines.
• The Gates foundation has long opposed any kind of weakening of intellectual property restrictions for vaccines.

• Listen to Drilled.
• If you’re in the Future: Listen to Damages!
• Follow Lyndal on Twitter!

• Victoria is banning swastikas and other Nazi symbols.
• IPA alumni Tim Wilson became Human Rights Commissioner, and then helped them out.

• Worried about climate change? It’s okay, two Liberal Ministers are proposing more school chaplains to help!.
• Luke Howard is all about school chaplains. He pushed for more funding in 2018 too.
• As housing minister he said he wanted to put a “positive spin” on homelessness.
• Maybe if you’re feeling bad, you can do some mindfulness with the Labor Party coloring book.
• Barnaby Joyce doesn’t want to denounce satan? Also he doesn’t think climate change is real.

• “Death is horrible, BUT”
• “There’ll be funerals, BUT you’ll be able to go to them!”
• Hospital systems are critically overloaded in Victoria in NSW.
• Bunnings is calling it, and reopening their stores.

• The 2020 JobSeeker program handed out millions of dollars to prop up record corporate profits.
• Scott Morrison is “not into the politics of envy”.
• Independent MP Rex Patrick pushed for a bill to force companies to reveal information showing if they really needed the Jobkeeper grants. Labor backed down.
• Jaquie Lambie accused the Labor party of “slapping the little person”.

• The Tasmanian Liberals voted down declaring a climate emergency, saying it was “scaring the children”.

• The Liberal party have granted $50 million for gas exploration in the Beetaloo Basin.
• Two of the companies funded have links to tax havens and Russian oligarchs.
• The third company, Empire Energy, received $21m. Empire Energy has close ties with the Liberals.
• Complained the the grant process was corrupt, but still voted to allow it.
• Traditional owners were cut out of the grant processes.

• BHP is slashing value from it’s coal assets.
• Origin Energy is trying to get out of coal.
• Angus Taylor’s “CoalKeeper” plan is going to increase electricity prices by $400 per household, per year.
• For the first time, Australia generated more solar energy than coal.
• Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology has been gagged from talking about climate change.

• Support the fundraiser for Beyond Bricks and Bars — a trans and gender diverse decarceration project.
• Solidarity with the truck drivers striking against uberisation of the industry.

• Police are helping by shutting down food banks.
• In South Australia, the DHS chief executive is trying to shut down a communist soup kitchen.

• Massive lockdown protests in Melbourne and Sydney over the weekend.
• Tom Tanki’s coverage of the lockdown protests is excellent.
• White supremacists are using the protests as a recruiting ground.

• Playgrounds have been closed in Victoria.
• Childcare has been shut down for all except essential workers.
• During the 2020 lockdown, childcare was made free.
• Stop snitching on kids.

• The eviction moratorium is over, and now landlords can kick people out of their homes in advance of October 25th.
• The Real Estate Institute is out there to defends the landlords though.

• Coalition troops have pulled out out Afghanistan, and the situation is bad.
• Canada and the UK are taking 20,000 Afghan refugees.
• Scott Morrison says that no Afghan will be permanently settled in Australia, unless they come the “right way”.
• Peter Dutton says Afghan people might be Taliban now, so they won’t be welcome in Australia.
• After the Vietnam war, Australia took in 55,000 Vietnamese people.
• Even Tony Abbot took in 12,000 Syrian and Iraqi refugees.

• You can have a look at my game if you like :)

• It’s WAR! NSW is LITERALLY at WAR with the virus.
• Berejiklian has said that the police will receive more power and resources than they “needs and want”.

• The 6th IPCC report into the effects of climate change has been released.
• It’s saying mostly what we knew already, just more so.
• Deconstructed podcast on the IPCC report.
• Even the International Energy Agency say we must build no new fossil fuel energy.
• Scott Morrison has made no commitment to net zero emissions.
• Angus Tayor has made changes that allow fossil fuels to be funded by the renewable energy fund.
• And increased funding by using tricky methods that only apply to gas or coal.
• Taylor has also interfered in energy company board structures to keep Australian energy away from clean sources.
• Barnaby Joyce doesn’t know who’s going to come up with a plan for an energy transition.

• QLD Labor Environment Minister: “match the Palaszczuk Government’s investment in renewable energy, water quality and land restoration” (bad)
• WA Labor approved massive new gas projects.
• VIC Labor Environment Minister: “We need to act on climate change. Quickly and decisively.” (but gas drilling a okay)
• While… the ALP pledged to re-open Callide Power Station (which exploded)

• Oil execs posting their Ls.
• Lawyers posting their horrible Ls.
• The idea of a “carbon footprint” was created by the fossil industry to push blame away from themselves.
• 100 companies are responsible for 71% of emissions.

• Read Heated
• Listen to Drilled
• Follow Ketan Joshi
• Read Warmth by Daniel Sherrell.
• Change your bank and super. It’s really easy.
• Join your union. Push them to take action.
• Environmentalist Bill McKibben: “Don’t be an individual…”
• Call and write your MPs. The lower-level, the better.
• Donate or volunteer at green orgs. Tomorrow Movement, Friends of the Earth, 350, Stop Adani.
• Speak up, don’t pull punches.

• 60% of Australia is back in lockdown.
• A NSW Tradie chucked a sickie, saying he had Covid.
• There’s Covid in the Flemington housing towers again. But the response has been a bit more humane this time.
• People in Victorian public housing have had access to on-site vaccinations.

• The ALP have suggested that people should be paid $300 to encourage vaccine uptake.
• Scott Morrison called it an insult.
• …but is in talks with Tabcorp to run a lottery.

• The walls of Fortress Australia keep getting higher.
• Some people will need to wait up to four years for Centerlink support.

• Laurel Hubbard is one of first openly transgender athletes to compete in the Olympics. The TERFs went mad.
• Tracy Holmes’s interview with Laurel shows that the media are only interested in her as a spectacle, not about women’s sports.
• Tasmanian Senator Clair Chandler is bringing the bathroom wars to Australia.
• Gold medalist Quinn, is a non-binary transgender athlete who plays for the Canadian women’s soccer team.
• Hormone levels are used to discriminate against black women. There’s nothing scientific about it.

• Go get your bloody vaccine.

• Origin Energy is writing down a bunch of their fossil fuel assets.
• Origin Energy is Australia’s most polluting corporation, and Angus Taylor has worked hard to make sure they stay that way.

• The NSW Government almost paid $430 million to a scammer, for 50 million N95 masks that didn’t exist.
• He also scammed investors out of $1.2 million dollars in oil and gas deals.
• NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has been involved with corrupt individuals for some time.
• She’s now dating her ICAC lawyer though, I’m sure he’ll keep her on the straight and narrow.

• The government has paid McKinsey $2.2 million for two months work, but won’t say what it was for.
• McKinsey was also paid $1.89 million for “strategic supply chain support services”.
• They were also paid $600,000 to tell the government to not do anything.
• Dave Chappelle’s friend didn’t know he couldn’t do that.
• Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction Angus Taylor, and his brother Charlie, both previously worked for McKinsey. Check out Episode 20 for more fun facts.
• Only 25% of the JobKeeper fund was passed on from companies to their workers.
• McKinsey says Australian governments need to “Build trust with citizens”.

• The Labor party has agreed to keep the Liberal’s massive tax cuts.
• They’ve also dumped their plan for cancer care & dental coverage.
• Murdoch rag the Australian gave the policy changes a small thumbs-up.
• Labor leader Anthony Albanese has taken some very serious profile pictures.
• The tweets are bad.

• Workers at Better Read Than Dead have reached an agreement with management in historic industrial action.
• New Renters Union dropped in in Queensland! Join SEQUR, if you’re in the area.
• Citations Needed did a great episode on the Olympics and why they’re bad.
• Listen to Auspol Snackpod with Tom Tanuki on the lockdown protests.

• Chuck us a review on Apple Podcasts.
• Change your power provider, if you’re still buying power from a polluting company like Origin.

• Scott Morrison went on KIIS FM and got grilled.
• He then doubled down.
• He finally apologised in the most petulant way possible.
• Horrifyingly, Barnaby Joyce and Matt Canavan have a podcast.

• Australia is shoveling shit-tonnes of cash into fossil fuel companies.

• Sussan Ley is back from a whirlwind lobbying jaunt to convince the world to not list the Great Barrier Reef as in danger.
• The lobbying worked!
• The Government has been fighting against any suggestion the reef might be in trouble for years. Unesco tried to list it in 2014, and australia has been successfully fighting to pretend everything’s fine ever since.

• Brisbane has won the hosting rights for the 2032 Olympics.
• Japan’s Olympics have become an incredibly expensive boondoggle for the host nation.
• Australian Olympics Commission President John Coates told QLD Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk what to do in a very weird, condesending manner.
• He has has long presided over a culture of bullying.

• People around Australia protested against lockdowns, vaccines, Q, whatever.
• The government has abandoned vulnerable people by continuing to lock down, while refusing to give support.
• When you’re the victim of a grift, it’s hard to admit it.
• To help people out of their belief systems, you need to “cool the mark”.
• The man didn’t punch the horse.
• Horses are weapons when used by the police.
• Emma Alberici just making things up in her head about Black Lives Matter marches.

• Get a vaccine! It’s annoying but you gotta do it. Here’s a website that can help. Our brains are not wired to understand very rare risks.
• Support the strike fund for workers at Better Read Than Dead.
• Listen to Evie’s interview with Dr Susie Allanson and Lizzie O’Shea on the fight for safe access to abortion.
• Chuck us some stars on iTunes.

• Santos has decided not to drill for gas in the Great Australian Bight. (because it’s not profitable)

• The Australian Mint commissioned an artist to create Australian Olympic fursonas.
• You can get them as stickers at Woolies.
• Go check out their art!
• Olympics fuckin suck though.

• Scott Morrison went on Kyle and Jackie O with a burning hot topic: He didn’t shit himself at the Engadine Maccas.

• NSW abandons it’s “common sense” plan, and put in new “essential workers” restrictions.
• It’s “so, so difficult to have a precise rule for every single thing”
• Everyone’s snitch glands are going wild.
• Covid support payments are slightly better! They still suck though.
• Businesses should “honour their commitments” to workers.
• Nationalize the supermarkets (From friend of the show James Clark).

• Draw our fursonas

• Anthony Albonese really wants Scott Morrison.
• Julian Hill is worried about Scott Morrison missing.
• Tanya Plibersek is bored without Scott Morrison to play with.
• Stephen Jones drew a little cartoon about his mate.
• Michelle Rowland just wants to see her little friend.

• The Government is scrapping their plans to force independent assessors onto people with disabilities.
• The pilot of the project was a disaster.
• The NDIS is still underfunded and still makes access difficult for the people who need it most.

• In late July 2020, Victoria was seeing 700+ Coronavirus cases a day.
• Now in July 2021, NSW is expecting 100+ cases.
• NSW Police performed a “compliance blitz” in Sydney’s Western Suburbs, while ignoring wealthy areas.
• …repeating the pattern established in 2020.

• But it’s okay, the vaccine rollout is only 2 months behind!
• Morrison announced a “flood of Pfizer doses”.
• Pfizer says actually nah.
• General JJ Frewen has be placed in charge of the vaccine rollout logistics.
• The ADF isn’t actually so good at logistics.
• But don’t worry! The government has a great new advertising campaign to encourage vaccine uptake.
• Make the ad more horny!
• Boooooo alcopop tax.
• Listen to Eye of the Enemy, they’ve got a clever bass player.

• Australian Science museum Questacon is spouting fossil fuel propaganda.
• The video series was funded by Japanese fossil energy company Inpex.
• Questacon claims the company had no input in the content.
• Climate change is being normalised by media.
• Why aren’t we using more renewables and batteries? Because we need to use gas as a transition fuel!
• Inpex emitted excess carbon, enough to cancel out the savings from 1.7 million rooftop solar panels.

• Go back and listen to Episode 74 — Care of Duty: Modern Lawfare, for context on Sussan Ley’s appeal of the case.
• Go listen to Flood’s interview with Cam Coventry on Bob Hawk being an informer to US intelligence in the 70s.

• Greenpeace posed as corporate recruiters, and got Exxon lobbyists to admit that they only supported a carbon price because they knew that it would never happen.
• The Gulf of Mexico is on fire.
• Australia is ranked dead last in the World on climate action.

• Scott Morrison maybe accidentally allowed people under 40 to get vaccinated.
• The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation’s advice on AstraZeneca remains the same.
• The National Cabinet has outlined a four-step plan out of Covid restrictions.
• Channel 9 ran a vaccine ad.
• Australia’s vaccine performance is the worst in the OECD.
• Watch the Hbomberguy’s Vaccines: A Measured Response.
• Friend of the pod Kristina Kerscher Keneally proudly said she would wait for Pfiser.

• NAIDOC Week is running from 4-11 July 2021.
• Raymond Noel Thomas was killed after being aggressively pursued by police.
• At the inquest into his death, the Coroner blasted the police’s disrespect.
• As a ten-year-old Raymond was handcuffed by police, and told “if you move I’ll shoot you”.

• The government keeps porkbarreling, pledging to spend $660 million on car parks.
• Alan “kidnapper” Tudge was the minister for Urban Infrastructure at the time.
• “There were no evaluation plan or performance indicators developed for the projects. No records were properly kept”

• Pay the rent.

• A limo driver at the center of the Sydney outbreak was eligible for the vaccine, but didn’t get one because he was afraid to. Police are trying to pin something on him.
• Gladys Berejiklian admits to pork-barrelling.
• Richard Pusey filmed dying police officers.
• Prime Minster Scott Morrison says the outbreak is NSW’s fault.

• Federal Environment Minister Sussan Ley added an extra “s” to her name because of a misunderstanding of numerology. Maybe just so she could add an extra cool S?
• Check out episode 74: Care of Duty: Modern Lawfare.
• Sussan Ley vetoed a massive new renewable energy hub, quoting “environmental impacts”.
• …while approving 21 offshore gas drilling sites near Victoria’s Twelve Apostles.
• She also put the solar power industry “on notice”, saying they need to sort out recycling.
• Australia has very little actual recycling infrastructure.
• Ley is also considering allowing a banned poison to deal with NSW’s mouse plague.
• She was “blindsided” by UNESCO recommending that the Great Barrier Reef be placed on a list as in “great danger”.
• Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson forced the Audit Office to admit that the Government’s $444 million grant to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation was to avoid the very same UNESCO listing.

• Shoutout to the workers at General Mills who struck and won a pay rise and bonus!

• The Government released the “7th edition” of a plan to prepare the Aged Care sector for Covid. Turns out editions 1-6 did not exist.
• Aged Care Richard Colbeck stated that “The government maintains it’s position that it has a plan in place”.

• Normal Guy Scott Morrison is away at the G7, so Nationals leader Michael McCormack get wild with it.
• In January McCormack said the US Capitol Riots are the same as Black Lives Matter, doubling down and saying “All Lives Matter”.
• McCormack also said that the plague of mice should be rehomed to inner-city apartments.
• Scott Morrison is having a great time with all his mates at the G7.
• …while making late night calls to the Australian gas industry to let them know they’re still his number one.
• The Nationals are outraged that Morrison even stood next to leaders promising zero emissions by 2050.
• Fossil fuel industries take more in subsidies than they pay in resource taxes.
• Australia is starting to be seen by institutional investors as “high risk”.

• The terrible new Online Safety Bill is set to pass parliament. The Labor Party “will be supporting this bill, but we’re not happy about it”
• This week, the ALP voted with the government to open the Beetaloo Basin for gas exploration.
• Shadow Resources Minister Madeleine King thinks both sides are bad on the climate debate.
• The Labor party are saying that the Government wants to take away Medicare.
• Richard Marles says the quiet part out loud — there is no substantial difference between the Liberal and Labor parties on border policies.

• FriendlyJordies is a YouTuber.
• His producer, Kristo Langker, was arrested by the Fixated Person’s Unit.
• The Fixated Threat Assessment Centre was established in QLD in 2013, and was one of the first units of its type.
• These units have been used to blackbag an Origin Energy whistleblower, and harrass a Greens councillor in Brisbane.
• The Government don’t have a history of using police to attack political enemies.
• Kevin Rudd has written about Jordan… but sitting Labor party members haven’t said a word.

• Listen to this week’s Floodcast on Mark Fisher’s “Vampire Castle”.
• Help the Gippsland Ranges Roller Derby club get their arena up and running again.
• Help fund 3CR Community Radio!

• On the 9th of March Victorian Premier Dan Andrews fell down the stairs.
• Soon afterwards, conspiracy theories started spreading.
• Dan Andrew’s wife Catherine posted a slightly odd photo of him getting a haircut.
• Shadow Treasurer Louise Staley has spent too long indoors, and is now pushing the conspiracies too.
• Victoria Ambulance released a statement verifying the official story.
• In good news, Dan Andrews has released a proof-of-line video.

• Nades and Priya are Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka, fleeing the danger of of the civil war and persecution.
• They built a family and a better life in the town of Biloela, before being stolen away in a dawn raid.
• Now their daughter Tharnicaa, is deathly ill with pneumonia and sepsis.
• There are almost 1500 people being kept in detention in Australia.
• Kristina Keneally has been using the Biloela family as a political prop, despite never voting to improve their material situation.
• A handful of LNP ministers have called for the family to be brought home.
• Assistant Minister for Women Senator Amanda Stoker says the care on Christmas Island is “good enough”.
• The Minister for Immigration has “god powers” to give or deny visas. Peter Dutton used this power 4129 times as Immigration Minister.
• Indian Australians are still struggling to return to Australia. Australian citizens have died of COVID, trapped overseas.
• Shoutout to the Labor party being in policy lockstep with the Liberals and voting to allow indefinite detention for refugees.
• Scott Morrison refuses to say when Australians will be allowed to travel again.
• Behrouz Boochani on the suffering of the Biloela family and asylum seekers.

• Call your local MP, and tell them that the will burn forever in the fires of hell if they don’t take drastic action to improve the lives of the people suffering in Australia’s refugee system.

• Christian Porter has dropped his case against the ABC.
• …a week after calling on the ABC to not drag out the case, because they’re spending taxpayer money.
• Fairfax papers published a weird puff piece on Porter’s new relationship.

• In 2013, a QLD Police sergeant Neil Punchard deliberately leaked information about a domestic violence victim to her abuser.
• In a completely unrelated note, QLD police is “grappling” with a rise in officers named in domestic abuse orders.
• This week, it came out that NSW police gave the entire image of a domestic violence victim’s phone to her abuser.
• Celebrite is an Israeli hardware/software package used by law enforcement.
• The CEO of Signal posted a blog post dissecting how Cellebrite works.
• It’s not just cops! The NDIS leaked information about a participant to their family, despite warnings they were at danger of domestic violence.

• Victoria has been in lockdown for two weeks.
• The Victorian government has propped up businesses with $250m in grants.
• The Federal government has finally agreed to give some measly grants to individual people, in the form of a wizard’s riddle.
• Businesses have refused to pay back Jobkeeper overpayments (and the government isn’t asking for it back).
• …while they claw back money from individuals.

• Richard Colbeck is minister for aged care, apparently. He just refuses to admit he’s responsible.
• Of the 910 people who have died of Covid in Australia, 655 were in Victorian aged care homes.
• The Royal Commission found that the Government did not have a plan for the pandemic.
• During the outbreak in 2020, the government provided additional funding for aged care workers to not work at multiple sites. They dropped this funding as soon as possible.
• The National cabinet has agreed that Covid Vaccines are not mandatory for aged care workers.
• We have a Registry of who’s been immunised in Australia!
• There are anti-vaxxers in the Government.
• A great thread about the roll-out of the HPV Vaccine.
• Health Minister Greg Hunt posted anti-mask propaganda.

• Sign the petition to stop the planned cable-car up Mt Wellington in Hobart.

• Ben Roberts-Smith is just carrying flowers around?
• Five days ago, he wiped a laptop (after being told by his legal team not to).
• After burying evidence of alleged war crimes in a pink lunchbox.
• Scope the man’s very weird portrait at the Australian War Museum.

• A class action case brought by 8 teenagers, along with an 86-year-old nun, have won a case recognising that the Australian Environment Minister has a duty of care to protect young people from the climate crisis.
• Environment Minister Susan Ley has signed off an a few bad things in her term since 2019: Approving the clearing of koala habitat, rubber stamping 850 gas wells, greenlighting the bulldozing of sacred birthing trees, and stopping scientists from publishing pro-conservation papers.
• Children are an “umbrella species” for the rest of us.
• Shoutout to Sister Brigid Arthur for her fantastic action.

• The Netherlands has ordered Shell to reduce it’s emissions by 45% by 2030.
• Shell sells “carbon neutral” LNG, which is just slapping some carbon credits on a barrel of gas.
• Shell produces 1% of global emissions, all by itself.
• Activist shareholders at Exxon have gotten four environmentally-minded board members elected.
• Chevron shareholder forced the board to watch a video calling them out for their climate inaction.

• The Callide C coal power plant exploded!
• People with solar power and batteries didn’t even notice.
• The power plant was overhauled in 2019 (for $60 million) and 2017 ($50 million).
• Matt Canavan, said “this is good actually”.

• Support the 3CR Radiothon!

• It was RAHU’s first birthday!
• Shoutout to the Renewables in Agriculture Conference.

• The International Energy Agency dropped a new report saying that fossil fuels are bad.
• Climate change-denying former Federal Minister for Finance Mathias Cormann was elected as head of the OECD.
• The “Green Energy Fund” can now be used to fund fossil fuels.
• The Australian government is funding a new $600 million gas power plant.
• The power plant will run at about 2% capacity, about 150 hours per year.
• Luckily, it looks like it will just be a chance to hand money to donors.
• Jeff McCloy, owner of the land that is flagged for the plant, is a major liberal party donor.
• He was the the only “stakeholder” to objected to land protections koalas.
• Update: Oh also he has known the head of the company responsible for the project for 20 years.
• The world’s seven largest economies have agreed to stop funding coal projects.
• The Labor party have found it very difficult to criticise the government.

• Keith Pitt, minister for Resources, Water, and Northern Australia has vetoed a wind/batter power station near Cairns.
• Keith Pitt is a battery denier.
• The Queensland state government has stepped in and provided funding instead.

• The government is continuing to fuck up the vaccine rollout. Only 25% of aged care workers and 4% of people in disability care facilities.
• If you want a vaccine, you can pretty much get one now.
• Update: Nope.
• The media is reframing the botched vaccine rollout as instead that people are afraid of getting the vaccine. Shoutout to Health Nerd on Twitter for pointing out that this isn’t really what the data says.

• Deliveroo has lost a case against the Fair Work Commission, now holding up that their workers should be defined as employees instead of contractors.
• Shoutout to the Transport Workers Union and Diego Franco for winning this case!
• Solidarity with the staff at Better Read than Dead who have entered into bargaining talks with management, after previously being met with threats of termination.
• Congrats to the Save the Inks campaign for pushing back on QLD’s restrictions!

• Many passive-voice related incidents occurred in Australian media this week regarding conflict in the Middle East.
• Sky news had good coverage?? Nah don’t worry, they’re back on track.
• Schwartz media has had a long-standing pro-Israel stance.
• More than 670 Australian journalists and media personalities have signed an open letter calling for media organisations to do better on Palestine.
• Shoutout to political economist Elizabeth Humphrys for calling for more collective action amongst media workers.

• The Australian media loves to divide the budget into winners and losers.
• David Speers walks right into Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s framing trap.
• The budget predictions are simply a fantasy.

• Shoutout to Celeste Liddle, who is running for the Greens in the federal seat of Cooper.
• Lydia Thorpe, Victoria’s first Aboriginal woman senator “The instruction from the colonizers was to wipe us and our language out, to take our children… Their plan was to annihilate us, to get rid of us altogether. But they failed.”

• Attend one of the rallies happening across Australia this weekend in solidarity with the people of Palestine.

• The cop who beat up a Blak kid 11 months ago has been charged with assault. We talked about this back in episode 22.

• Scott Morrison doesn’t know why Australia should go to war with China.
• Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lijian Zhao, calls Australian politicians the “real troublemakers”.
• In the Saturday Paper, Hugh White likens Australian politicians to the the statesmen of 1914.

• The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission thinks that all encryption is for criminals.
• Former PM Malcolm Turnbull confirmed that he uses encrypted messaging apps.
• Former Attorney General George Brandis was very confused by what “metadata” is.
• Cam Wilson’s article in Crikey on the online privacy bill.

• The Dobseeker hotline is up and running.
• People turning down jobs is a problem that statistically doesn’t exist — of 1.1 million people on Jobseeker, only 114 turned down a job.
• The tax return graphs that show “where your taxes go”.
• The Australian Retail Association opposes the hotline too.

• Hundreds of people have officially objected to the Robodebt class action settlement.
• The Government is using the same data matching approach as Robodebt, and applying it to Jobkeeper.

• Join the Australian Unemployed Workers Union.
• Sign the petition to Save the Inks.
• Come to the RAHUGALA on May 22!

• Protest the colonial violence being committed against the Palestinian people. Rallies across Australia: Melbourne (May 15th), Sydney (May 15th), Brisbane (May 14th), Perth (May 14th).

• The government has ordered an “urgent review” into the Australia Day council.
• The review is being conducted by Glenys Beauchamp, who you may remember for destroying her sports rorts notebooks.

• The situation in India is real bad.
• The government is instituting a policy of jail time or massive fines for people who travel from India.
• This may or may not be legal.
• Australia stripped Suhayra Aden of her Australian citizenship, leaving her a citizen of only New Zealand.
• When Covid first kicked off, people were quarantined off-shore on Christmas Island.
• Hotel quarantine continues to be not great. Workers keep on getting Covid.
• The Victorian government is proposing a dedicated quarantine facility. Peter Dutton doesn’t like it.
• In October 2020 the government’s own Covid Commission recommended a federal approach to quarantine.
• In an outrageous display of “diplomacy” China is sending vaccines to India.
• India is a net-exporter of vaccines.
• Bill Gates doesn’t think vaccine formulas should be shared with India. The Gates Foundation is heavily invested in medical technology.
• Australia is home to 700,000 people from India.

• It’s WAR.
• Defence minister Peter Dutton says Australia should be ready for WAR with China.
• Home Affairs Michael Pezzullo reckons Europe learned the wrong lesson from the first World WAR.
• Defence Force chief Angus Campbell thinks WAR with China is a bad idea.
• War with China would be a bit-one sided.

• Liberal backbencher Andrew Laming says he has ADHD.
• Laming reckons the empathy training he was required to complete showed that he has too much empathy.
• On ABC Radio, Patricia Karvelas grilled Laming on his diagnosis and whether he is sorry for his actions.
• Laming does some 👁 stuff.

• Support refugee advocate Shane Bazzi, who is being sued by Peter Dutton for defamation.
• Listen to Lang on the Reanimates podcast.

Thanks to special guest show-notes author, podcast host Tom Lang.

• Anzac day is becoming increasingly iffy, and the kids just aren’t feeling it any more.
• The government loves to pay lip service to the troops, and then turn around and do things like lend money to veterans using their pensions as collateral, and then not restore the pension after they pay it back.
• This is the inside of Evie’s mind on Anzac day.
• Did we mention Ben Roberts Smith won Father of the year back in 2013? ALLEGED sorry ALLEGED father of the year.

• The government tried to make an education program about consent without using the word “consent”, which went predictably poorly.
• Alan Tudge, the relevant Minister, has so far not gone to jail for anything, and is newsworthy for a variety of reasons, including alleged bullying.
• The Safe Schools program, which tackled LGBTIQ+ issues and other important topics of sexuality and identity, outraged conservatives and was ended in most areas except for Victoria.
• Scott Morrison apparently hated existing sex education programs so much that he sent his daughters to a private school.

• It was Earth Day on the 22nd of April, which was originally started among the civil rights movement in the 60s.
• Environmental Journalists like Emily Atkin from Heated can tell you about the corporate greenwashing festival this day has become.
• Scott Morrison thoroughly embarrassed the nation at the Climate Leaders Summit, with a classic combination of incompetence, spin, and lies.
• Even fluffy morning TV show host (and alleged father of the year) Kochy called Angus Taylor on our pathetic climate targets.

• The notorious KKK visited the Tamil Asylum seeker family that was deported from their loving community in Biloela. They’re currently being held indefinitely on Christmas Island.
• She wrote about her experiences, but be warned, this is coming directly from a politician whose party was instrumental in the laws that have resulted in this family being detained.
• It’s easy to check her personal voting record.
• She’s previously dogwritten on how migrants will take our jobs.

• Ben Roberts-Smith (alleged war criminal) allegedly buried some incriminating evidence in a lunchbox.
• It is also alleged that he kept a bunch of burner phones and sent intimidating letters to witnesses.
• Channel 7 are standing by Roberts-Smith, and paying for his defence fund.

• Christine Holgate, Former CEO of Australia Post, gave some watches to executives who landed a deal for the company.
• This was originally brought to light by was originally pushed by Kimberly Kitching the Labor Party, then finally by the government.
• Kimberly Jane Elizabeth Kitching wore “suffragette white” in solidarity with Holgate.
• Meanwhile, Australia Post was asking their staff to work for free and use their own vehicles.
• At the Senate inquiry into Holgate’s sacking, Holgate wore a $40k watch.
• She racked up $300k in personal expenses over a couple of months of work.
• Auspost Licensees sent Scott Morrison $5 notes to “pay back” the value of the watches.
• During Victoria’s early tower lockdown (see Episode 26), Holgate argued that Pauline Hanson should be able to send abusive propaganda into the towers.

• Australia is giving out natural resources away for free! Shell is projected to pay $0 in resources taxes.
• Shells profits “slumped” in 2020 to $4.8 billion.
• The Gorgon gas plant, which Shell and Chevron are using as a tax writeoff, doesn’t work.
• 4 Corners has been listening to the podcast, and decided to follow up on Angus Taylor pressuring the AEMO into a “gas led recovery”.
• The government paid $2.5m on the Boston Consulting Group to recommend the gas plan.
• The same group were in 2019 paid to recommend that Australia Post be broken up and sold off.

• If your bank or Superannuation invest in fossil fuels, dump em!
• The Renters and Housing Union are going national, baby!
• Make a category for climate change podcasts, Apple.
• Shoutout to the NDIS leaker. Listen to last week’s ep for more detail.

• Massive protests this week against the continued indigenous deaths in custody, and continued inaction.
• Shoutout to AFLW Emma Kearney for taking a knee during the national anthem last week.

• The government knew Robodebt was illegal, but kept it going… because it might have been confusing if they stopped?
• Stuart Robert giving himself NDIS god powers, causing drama in the group chat. Now Linda Reynolds is leaving the chat on read.
• Stuart Robert, who made his parent’s dummy directors of a company without their knowledge, and racked up $40,000 in internet bills and charged them to the tax payer. Linda Reynolds who called a victim of abuse a lying cow.
• A man with Autism was assigned a physiotherapist to assess his case.
• The architects of Robodebt are trying to do the same to the NDIS.
• As Dr Kathleen Flanagan puts it, “We will mine your pain and distress for data, and weaponise this data against you”.
• The Immigration minister has these God-powers — can allow or deny visas on a whim.
• Linda Reynolds says the medevac bill made her “almost physically ill”.

• The government paid $1.4 billion to a private company to run offshore refugee processing.
• Refugee children are suffering from resignation syndrome.
• Andrew Laming has 35 Facebook pages.
• Huge companies have raked in $90 million from a slush fund that is designed to improve employment outcomes for Aboriginal people.

• Ol’ Scotty’s fucked it again.
• Vaccines aren’t getting to the clinics that need them, or those that have been told they would receive them.
• The Australian people used to own CSL, then Keating sold it off, and now we’re renting it back again.

• Shoutout to the workers at the McCormick food factory in Melbourne, who have been on strike, and fuckin won.

• Afgan villagers are being allowed to testify from Afghanistan in the Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case.
• Check out Episode 46 for detail on Roberts-Smith’s alleged war crimes.
• Defamation laws didn’t protect the women who had their faces plastered over the front pages of newspapers and called “enemy of the state”.

• Scott Morrison turned on the waterworks.
• Begrudging shoutout to Ged Kearny for calling them crocodile tears.
• After questioning by a Sky News reporter, Scott Morrison lashed out, potentially outing a victim of sexual assault (turns out he maybe invented it, and made a groveling notes-app apology).
• Alleged upskirt-photographer Andrew Laming won’t contest the next election.
• ABC’s 7.30 Report empty-chair-interviewed Scott Morrison.
• Scott Morrison got bodied on A Current Affair.

• Dutton has taken a brave stand against video games.
• Disco Elysium was recently banned in Australia.
• Staffers doing things to desks because of Grand Theft Auto.
• Australia has a long and storied history of attempting to censor the internet.
• Conservatives are pushing for requiring 100 points of ID to create a social media account.
• On the committee proposing the ID requirements? Andrew Laming, who once spent 11 hours fighting on a Facebook Simpsons meme page, who has a long history of online harassment of women.

• Scott Morrison has reshuffled cabinet again.
• Anne Ruston is minister for Women’s Safety, despite declaring that the government doesn’t need a definition of poverty.
• Jane Hume, now the Minister for Women’s Economic Security loves brown coal.
• Liberal Party federal vice-president Teena McQueen says she would “kill to be sexually harassed at the moment”.
• Anthony Albanese: “Shuffling the deck won’t change the bad hand that the Morrison Government is dealing Australians.”
• Australian of the Year Grace Tame had a more coherent take.
• The Murdoch media didn’t like this.

• Speak out about shit that’s bad. Read more Wikipedia?
• If you’re able to, attend the protest against deaths in custody on Saturday the 10th.
• Play Disco Elysium, unless you’ve got a PS4.

• The Labor party are holding the Special Platform Conference on the 30-31st March 2021.
• Labor takes lots of money from the fossil fuel industry.

• Joel Fitzgibbon’s brother Mark is the head of health insurer NIB, and in 2009 used Joel’s ministerial office to lobby the ADF to buy insurance.
• Mark Fitzgibbon has also lobbied for the scrapping of Medicare, and allowing private insurers access to medical records.
• Joel Fitzgibbon was a key figure in destabilising Julia Gillard’s leadership.
• He also believes someone earning $250,000 a year isn’t wealthy.
• During the 2019 bushfires in Australia, Fitzgibbon met with Matt Canavan and the CEO of the World Coal Association, then wrote an Op Ed saying people shouldn’t be upset at him because there’s a crisis on.
• Fitzgibbon has joined Craig Kelly’s “friends of coal” group.
• Joel Fitzgibbon formed the conservative Labor OTIS group, and lobbied for Labor to drop climate targets from their platform.
• He also attended a cocktail party with BHP, Chevron, Coal21, ENI and Exxon.
• Brain-worm host Gerard Henderson wrote a conservative media “Watch Dog” blog in the voice of his dog for the Sydney Institute.
• Joel Fitzgibbon thinks that Labor party should take cues from the Liberals and John Howard.

• Sign the petition to kick Joel Fitzgibbon out.
• Visit the Tomorrow Movement website and follow @tomorrowmvmt to keep up with their campaigns.

• The floods are bad, folks.
• Plagues of mice too.

• Thousands of people in Canberra and other cities across Australia marched against sexual assault.
• Scott Morrison says the people marching for justice should be glad they aren’t shot.
• NSW police commissioner Mick Fuller suggested an app for solving the problem of sexual assault.
• Mick Fuller defended his police force’s strip searches of children, saying young people should feel “little bit of fear” of police.
• Dumbass apps for consent have been around for a while.
• Captain Awkward on the Missing Stair.
• Staffers brought sex workers into Parliament house, and “performed a solo sex act on a female politicians desk”. The staffer has been sacked.
• A long list of freaks in parliament. Chair sniffing. Big tiddy anime figurines. Calling your co-worker a slut.

• ASIO are going to stop using terms like “rightwing extremism” and “islamic extremism” in their reports.
• Concetta Fierravanti-Wells thinks that ASIO should look into the left-wing Nazis.
• Fierravanti-Wells went to a celebration of the Croatian Nazi regime in 2007.

• Play Trash the Planet! It’s good and fun.
• Join RAHU’s rally against the end of the eviction moratorium on March 28th.

• Mark McGowan has led Western Australia’s Labor party to a landslide victory.
• Liberal party leader Zak Kirkup used to have a business card calling himself “Future Prime Minister”.
• Labor are talking about keeping WA’s border restrictions going indefinitely.

• The Federal government has spent millions of dollars in consulting fees to work out how to give millions of dollars to the gas industry.
• The AEMO already does this!

• The Victorian Yallourn coal power station is scheduled to close in 2028, 4 years earlier than previously planned.
• Angus Taylor is big mad.
• The Hazelwood power plant closed with six months notice, and a murky fund to support workers.

• Bitcoin is bad, but Ketan Joshi’s article is good.
• NFTs are bad too. How bad? Really bad.
• I dunno about this very expensive art either.
• The real world art market sucks too.

• Follow @RAFFWU on Twitter for updates on Readings worker’s EBA.
• Listen to the 7AM Podcast.

• It’s not a thylacine :(

• It’s International Women’s Day!
• The hashtag for this year’s International Women’s Day is #ChooseToChallenge
• Women ask for pay rises as much as men, but are knocked back more.
• Google has fired both of the (women) AI Ethicists they employed.
• Google has also filtered candidates from historically Black colleges out of job applications.
• Ketan Joshi’s book Windfall.

• Woolworths removed fresh produce from the shelves to “start a conversation about the importance of pollination”.
• Australian milk is some of the cheapest in the world.
• Woolworths buys 34% of Australian groceries.
• The grocery chain is building a massive 8.6 hectare distribution center.

• Donate to Sisters Inside and Black Rainbow.
• Check out Farmers for Climate Action.
• Follow @Constababble. And watch Lee recap Captain Planet on Twitch.
• Lee’s book — How to Save the Whole Stinkin’ Planet

• One “cap” of cocaine, please young sir.

• Listener Tara Nipe’s blog post on the practicalities of a fly-in-fly-out COVID quarantine.
• Victoria have instituted dedicated agency, the COVID-19 Quarantine Victoria (CQV), to manage the hotel quarantine program.

• The Coronavirus supplemental payment helped people escape from a cycle of poverty.
• After an extended campaign by advocates, the Government has raised the rate by… $3.57 a day.
• The Government has announced a “dob in a dole-bludger hotline”.
• We almost had some good news, with Greens Senator Rachel Siewert putting forward a motion to recognise that the Jobseeker rate should be be raised to above the poverty line, like Phoebe teaching Joey.
• Labor then agreed to back the Government’s misery bill.
• Anthony Albonese on Insiders, refuses to name a number.

• The media love to use the words “dole bludgers”.
• Victoria is introducing new rental reforms, to give renters basic rights.
• The media have freaked out about the reforms.
• Contact the Renters and Housing Union if you need help understanding how these laws effect you.

• All of Victoria’s number plates are made using prison labour, earning (up to) $2 and hour.
• Victoria also proposes to use prison labour to pick fruit.

• Play some Australia videogames! Untitled Goose Game, Hollow Knight or Armello are fantastic.
• Listen to two great podcast episodes on the Facebook news debacle: Banning Australia from this Machine Kills, and Lizzie O’Shea on Tech Won’t Save Us
• Listen the Pop Test ABC podcast.
• Read the Chaser and Matthew Davis’s rundown of LNP bullshit.

Content warning: A chunk of this episode is spent discussing the Brittany Higgins story, which at its core is about sexual violence. We don’t discuss specifics of the incident itself, but do talk about the surrounding political context.

• Victoria is out of lockdown!
• Public drunkenness has been decriminalised in Victoria, after 30 year campaign.

• In 2019, Defense Minister staffer Brittany Higgins was allegedly raped in an office in Parliament house.
• Scott Morrison needed to have this explained to him by his wife.
• Political staffers have few workplace protections.
• There is absolutely no connection between drug use and a marble table being broken during a party at Tony Abbots office.
• The Full Story Guardian podcast on Brittany Higgins.
• Craig Kelly’s longtime office manager has stayed on, despite repeated allegations of grooming teenagers and having an AVO taken out against him.
• Oh, and the Family Court has been abolished as an independant body, after a long campaign by Pauline Hanson.
• Jacqui Lambie continues to be a problematic fav, blasting the family court merger.
• Lambie made a secret deal with the Liberals to secure her vote on medical evacuation of refugees.
• Former Motoring Enthusiast accidental Senator Ricky Muir was “forced into a corner” on asylum seekers.
• Scott Morrison doesn’t send his girls to government school, because he is uncomfortable with a course on “Building Respectful Relationships”.

• Facebook has banned all links to news in Australia.
• Read Lizzie O’Shea’s article in Overland on the ban.
• The genocide in Myanmar was incited using Facebook.
• Facebook encouraged media organisations to start focusing on video content using faked metrics.

• Kristina Kersher Keneally tweeted out a lie about the Greens opposing a motion to recognise Pregnancy & Infant Loss Remembrance Day.
• Greens Senator Janet Rice corrected her.
• Janet Rice’s article about the heart-wrenching decision to have a late-term abortion.

• Listen to Floodcast. It’s great. Follow them at @floodmediaAU on Twitter too.

• We’ve got this.
• Poor nebuliser guy.
• COVID spread from a quarantine hotel worker to their housemate who worked at an airport Brunettis.
• A man is stranded in the Spirit of Tasmania terminal.
• Behrouz Boochani — “The border is part of Australia and it reproduces at home”
• Scott Morrison says he won’t take over hotel quarantine.

• ExxonMobil has announced the closure of its Altona refinery.
• Labor minister for Climate Change Joel Fitzgibbon — “…we need to commission new opportunities to extract more crude oil”.
• Matt Canavan — “To rebuild our refinery capacity we have to find more oil”
• Matt Canavan says he would cross the floor to vote against a net zero target target by 2050.
• Michael McCormack — “We are not worried, or I’m certainly not worried, about what might happen in 30 years’ time”
• Barnaby Joyce — “Quite a high proportion will have passed away… that’s the only thing certain about 2050”
• Matt Canavan thinks that the government should “do whatever it takes” to keep the mining industry going.
• During the COVID pandemic, more than 17000 jobs have lost from universities.
• The United Workers Union recognises that fossil industry workers need a just transition to new work.

• Australia is very reliant on imports of petroleum from other countries.
• Angus Taylor, “Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction” really wants to lock Australia into using petrol, even with hybrid cars.
• The Prius is lumpy, sorry for perpetuating petro-masculinity.
• Electric cars are getting better and better as the energy grid gets cleaner.
• Labor went into the 2019 election with a plan to get to 50% electric vehicles by 2030. The Liberal party attacked them as wanting to “end the weekend” and “kill the ute”.
• We could’ve had an electric root van.

• Health Minister Greg Hunt has put Liberal party logo on announcements about vaccines.
• ABC’s Michael Roland asked Hunt a question on this. Hunt accused Roland of “identifying with the Left”.
• The ABC has given journalists notice they could be sacked if they Tweet wrong.
• in July 2020 Greg Hunt tweeted an infographic questioning the use of face masks.

• Listen to Auspol Snackpod’s episode on Craig Kelly.

• Perth has massive bushfires, with at least 86 homes lost.
• COVID lockdowns and evacuation orders make for confusing mixed messages.
• Fire, plague and storms.
• Kangaroo Island is on fire, threatening the little Pigmy Possum, which was feared lost after devastating the 2019-20 bushfires.

• Eddie McGuire is a weird little freak with a long history in Australian media and sports. He is currently the president of the Collingwood football club.
• Former Collingwood player Héritier Lumumba’s complaints about the culture of racism at the football club sparked a report, which was finally leaked on February 1st (PDF Link).
• Read along with Tweet-thread horror of Eddie’s press conference.
• Eddie says Collingwood can’t be racist because the larger wing of the club has asian netball players.
• Around the time of the internal release of the report, Eddie Maguire announced his “retirement”.
• Eddie supported Collingwood football coach Nathan Buckley after he made insinuations about Héritier’s mental health.
• Premier Dan Andrews reckons Eddie stepping down is poor leadership.
• The Project had Héritier on to grill him on his racist treatment. They’ve since removed the episode.
• In 2017, a documentary about the racism that Héritier Lumumba has faced was released.
• Between the recording of this segment and the release of this episode, McGuire has quit.

• The Australia Open went into lockdown for a day.
• The Quarantine hotel workers has a party with 60 people to celebrate the end of Australian Open quarantine, sparking fears that the infected person caught or spread it there.

• Craig Kelly is big on Facebook, and is a totally cooked unit.
• Kelly went on conspiracy-addled celebrity chef Pete Evans’s internet show.
• Scott Morrison finally told Kelly to keep a lid on it.
• Labor member Ged Kearny called Kelly a “dangerous fool”.
• Labor’s Tanya Plibersek and Craig Kelly had a Parliament House corridor showdown.
• On the same day the Julia Gillard made her famous “misogyny” speech, she threw thousands of single mothers off parenting benefits and into poverty.
• Following a report into cross-burning nazi meetups in Australia, the Labor party moved a senate motion to condemn far-right extremism.
• After amendments, it was watered down to be completely meaningless. It was passed anyway.
• George Christensen posed with a gun, asked “greenie punks” if they’re feeling lucky, then called it a joke.
• Peter Dutton insists that ‘leftwing lunatics’ must be dealt with.

• Shoutout to We Are Hughes, who trying to unseat Craig Kelly.
• Listen to a great interview with Héritier Lumumba on friend-of-the-podcast Vocal Minority, and read his interview in Junkee.
• Listen to Floodcast, it’s good.

• Adelaide had a massive bushfire south of the city, described as like a firestorm or a volcano.
• Two-year-old packs bad rocks.
• Meanwhile in Melbourne, on Monday a mean and menacing “tip fire” managed to motivate 17 municipalities to move a “major alert” across most media.
• In good news, South Australia met the entirety of it’s power demand with solar for a few hours.

• Margaret Court, outrageous homophobe and anti-gay activist was given an Australia Day honor.
• Shoutout to the many Australians who are returning their Order of Australia honors: Dr Clara Tuck Meng Soo (AO for her LGBTIQ+ advocacy), Dr Rodney Syme (AO for his work on dying with dignity & human rights campaigning), Alistair Macrae (AO for religious work).
• Shoutout too to Journalist Kerry O’Brien for rejecting the award this year.
• Who did take their award? Malcom Turnbull, for his services toward marriage equality.

• The Labor party has reshuffled their shadow cabinet, replacing Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy. It was Mark Bulter, now it’s Chris Bowen.
• Mark Butler was fairly solid on Climate Change, despite being a Labor party suit.
• Labor are pursuing a “small target strategy” for the next election, not revealing any plans.
• Labor sees climate change as an “economic portfolio”.
• Joe Biden is actually doing good things for the climate? John Kerry, Biden’s new climate envoy makes allusions to Australia’s bushfires as a reason to act on climate.

• Climate denier Joel Fitzgibbon is still pushing Labor to refuse action on climate change.
• He was the shadow resources minister, but quit to spend more time building support within the right-wing faction of the Labor party.
• On Radio National, Fitzgibbon called Mark Butler “over-enthusiastic” about climate change.
• Labor leader Anthony Albanese said Joel Fitzgibbon’s comments were “wrong”.
• The Iron Law of Institutions states that “The people who control institutions care first and foremost about their power within the institution rather than the power of the institution itself”.

• 46 of the 60 refugees who were in Australia were held for up to 8 years in the Bell, nee Park Mantra hotel prisons have been released.
• 14 of the refugees have been kept in the hotels, for no apparent reason.
• Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton says it was cheaper for people to be in the community.
• There’s a rally at 2pm on Jan 30th for the refugees at the Park Hotel.
• The day after the release of the refugees, the United Nations royally roasted Australia for our treatment of refugees and indigenous Australians.

• The Government has been quietly stacking the Emissions Reduction Assurance Committee with fossil-fuel dudes.
• David Byers is the author of such articles as “Our fixation on renewables narrows the options”.
• Also on the board is Dr Brian Fisher, climate-change denier and author of multiple reports incorrectly saying that fighting climate change is too expensive to combat (PDF link).
• This follows long history of the Liberal party stacking committees to force carbon capture and hydrogen into clean energy plans.
• Andrew Forrest wants to launder fossil fuels fuels launder fossil fuels via hydrogen, but he’s an idiot.

• Australian Lawyer Greg Sheppard has been arrested in Papua New Guinea for stealing $98 million from a public trust destined for villagers affected by the Ok Tedi mine in Western PNG.
• Sheppard acted as “Local Director” for Wilson Security, which ran the Australian Manus Island refugee detention center.
• Under his oversight, guards tortured and cable-tied detainees to chairs, oversaw the death of Iranian Hamid Kehazaei from septicemia, and the sexual harassment of a disabled detainee.
• In a 2015 SBS Dateline report Greg Sheppard was caught on camera explaining how to launder bribes to government officials.
• Greg’s children have a band, who are “catchy as asian flu”, according to their father.
• The in this 2014 puff piece, the band claim that their parents poured their life savings into funding them, as does their dad.

• Scott Morrison reckons Australia Day is “It’s all about acknowledging how far we’ve come…particularly flash day for the people on those vessels either.”
• Cricket Australia has decided to remove references to the term “Australia Day” from their Jan 26 Big Bash League promotions.
• This decision was reached after consultation with their Indigenous advisory committee.
• The Australia day ads fuckin suck. As does the Australia Day Committee.
• Scott Morrison thinks Cricket Australia’s decision is “pretty ordinary”.
• During the 2019-20 bushfires, Scott Morrison tried to use the cricket as a distraction from the government’s confused response.
• Shoutout to cricketer Dan Christian, who told Scott Morrison to “Read the room”.

• Hospo Voice have a wage tracker app, called Mobilise. It helps track your wages and make sure you’re being paid correctly.
• If you got a Robodebt Class Action settlement, you can object to it.

• The Netherlands have done a mini-Robodebt, wrongly accusing thousands of families of abusing a childcare allowance scheme.
• The entire Dutch government have “quit” over this scandal.
• However, they remain in place in a caretaker capacity. Shades of Bridget McKenzie’s “resignation” here.

• The Federal government is pouring hundreds of millions of dollars of subsidies into gas fracking in the Beetaloo Basin.
• The gas from the basin is set to emit up to 117 megatonnes of greenhouse gas per year. The entire Australian transport sector produces about 100 megatonnes.

• Farmers in Victoria have been forced to dump $150,000 worth a celery crops.
• International students were abandoned by the government response to COVID.
• Fact check: Celery is good. A real team player. Put it in a stir-fry you dummies, or this fish stew is seriously great.

• The Australian open has been delayed, and is bringing Coronavirus-positive players and staff into Australia.
• Tennys Sandgren II has covid.
• Players are furious after being forced into hard hotel quarantine, despite being promised practice time.
• Premier Dan Andrews pushed for the Australian Open to remain in Melbourne.
• Who remembers last year’s Australian Open, when Slovenian player Dalila Jakupovic due to bushfire smoke?

• Scott Morrison is on holiday, leaving real man and Nationals Leader Michael McCormack in charge.
• First, he equated the US Capitol riots to Black Lives Matter.
• Then he doubled down, dropping an “All Lives Matter”.
• During the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests, One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson attempted to introduce a motion that “All Lives Matter”.
• Australia doesn’t have a right to free speech.
• McCormack also defended George “Unusually Complex Online Presence” Christenson.
• Read Jeff Sparrow’s article on the rise of Australia’s far-right.

• Shoutout to Quantas workers and their unions, fighting back against the airline for underpayment and abuses of the Jobkeeper scheme.
• Keep an eye on the Australian media coverage of the US Capitol riots, and complete our bingo card.
• Attend the Invasion Day rallies around Australia.

• Australia is yet again on fire.

• Deliveroo riders have elected health and safety representatives, and are trying to force the company to comply with the Work Health and Safety Act.
• Google workers have formed the Alphabet Union.
• Venture capitalist Mike Solana reckons it’s a LARP.
• Microsoft workers (not IBM) protested to stop the company working with ICE.

• Alan Jones leading protests at parliament house.
• Sky News drives right-wing extremism in the US.
• Australia helped pave the way for the US insurrection.
• The Q viking dude inside the Capitol was posting Sky news on his Facebook page.
• The Christchurch shooter was deeply ingrained in US politics and conspiracy theories.
• Australian politicians George Christenson and Craig Kelly tried to claim the the Capitol rioters were Antifa.
• Scott Morrison refused to condem Donad Trump for encouraging the insurrection.
• The Australia Labor party criticised Scott Morrison in a tweet. Joel Fitzgibbon didn’t want to be associated with it.

• Brisbane has Coronavirus, and is in a three-day lockdown.
• Brisbane’s rules require masks as long as you’re out of the house.
• Victoria instituted a hard border lockdown with NSW on New Years Eve.
• Many people are still locked out of Victoria.
• A woman suffered a miscarriage while traveling back from NSW, and faced horrific treatment from police.
• The Twitter drips were nightmarish about it.
• The NSW Police let the two Germans through to Victoria.

• The Indue cashless welfare card had on outage over Christmas/New Years, so people were unable to access their money for three days.
• There was another outage in 2019.
• There are a long list of rules that restrict what people can do with their card.
• There is no evidence that the cashless welfare cards improve outcomes for the people on them.
• Mining billionaire Andrew “Twiggy” Forrest has spent years trying to push the card.
• Pauline Hanson says the quiet part out loud.

• Support the Australian Unemployed Workers’ Union.
• Listen to the 7AM Podcast series, Climate change will kill you.

• The Prime Minister has announced a one-word change to the national anthem.
• The change was originally backed by NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian.
• Scott Morrison remembers Bob Hawke for changing the national anthem.

• The government is going through with their threat to cut jobkeeper.
• Mitch on ABC’s The Drum
• The eviction moratorium is set to end on 28th March 2021.

• Global emissions dropped 7% in 2020

• Divest your bank
• Join your union. AUWU and RAHU are good choices.

• Scott Morrison’s visit to Cobargo
• The firefighter who really didn’t want to shake his hand.

• The meme war, covered in episode 48 and the trade war fallout in episode 50.

• Anne Ruston, covered in episode 14 and episode 45.

• Sexy Dan Andrews covered in episode 28.
• People getting horny for Victorian Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton covered in episode 30.

• We’ve talked about gas before. Check out episodes 4, 9, 11, 16, 19, 20, 23, 26, 28, 34, 38, 43 and 47 for a quick recap.

• Not just SARS-CoV-2, but the Coronavirus too.

• The NU Unions making big wins: RAFFWU, AUWU, RAHU.
• The Wyong Woolies Workers Winning Their Wages With A Walk Off
• RAFFWU taking McDonalds to court and winning
• AUWU getting in three senate submissions and running a Mutual Obligation strike
• Centrelink workers releasing a letter saying they disagree with the work they’re being made to do
• RAHU helped negotiate over $20k in rental debt and getting eviction notices overturned.
• Spotless Laundry workers walked off the job over safety concerns
• Canberra garbage truck drivers going on multiple strikes
• The Mitre 10 stop work that was won in less than four hours
• The bus driver stop work that was won before it started
• The NTEU wage theft repayment protest that was successful before it started
• Coles workers on indefinite strike after being locked out of their worksites, after striking back in March
• Maritime Union of Australia going on strike all along the east coast

• Sports rorts covered in episode 3
• The NRL island that wasn’t
• The AFL teams were isolated into quarantine hubs.

• Handling of Victorian hotel security covered in episodes 27, 29, 33, and 39.
• In two months, five food delivery workers were killed on the job.
• Government’s move to change laws for part time workers covered in episode 48.

• In 2017 it was found unlawful
• The Not My Debt campaign
• Bill Shorten announces class action lawsuit
• Debts will be repaid
• Scott Morrison apologizes
• Kathryn Campbell doesn’t know what Robodebt is?
• Gordon Legal settles out of court
• Correction: Anthony Pratt has donated millions (not hundreds of thousands) to both the Liberal and Labor parties.

• NSW’s Northern Beaches is under lockdown.
• Seems likely the failures the quarantine requirements are to blame for the outbreak.

• The Federal Court has ruled that the Victorian Government’s decision to build a highway through Djab Wurrung birthing trees was made incorrectly, and must be re-judged by someone who isn’t Sussan Ley.
• On the same highway project in 2015, in a “planning blunder” led to the destruction of 900 native trees.

• The Victorian Ombudsman’s report into the public tower lockdowns (PDF link) has been released.
• In July, 3000 people in public housing tower blocks were locked down with zero notice.
• Our podcast episode on the tower lockdown from July.
• Tower residents were only able to go outside and exercise in guarded cages.
• Like the hotel quarantine report, we probably won’t know who was responsible for these decisions.

• China’s state media has reported that China is banning all imports of Australian coal.
• Scott Morrison says this is baseless “media speculation”.
• Australia’s coal isn’t really better than other countries.
• Australians now have cheap lobsters for Christmas.
• Resource Minister Matt Canavan’s brother’s coal mine has collapsed.
• Now Canavan is calling for a trade levy on iron ore.
• Morrison’s “I stopped these” plaque.

• Treasurer Josh Frydenburg wants an inquiry on why banks aren’t lending to coal projects.
• George Christensen, complex online presence.
• The Federal government are subsidising fuel to keep refineries open.
• Australia is spending $94 million dollars to stockpile fuel in the US.
• The Victorian government is proposing a new tax on electric vehicles.

• Anthony Pratt’s company Visy has received $10m from Australia’s bushfire recovery fund.
• The application process for the bushfire fund is… obtuse.
• For regular people, the bushfire recovery fund does not exist.
• Anthony Pratt’s wealth grew from $15.57bn to $19.75bn in 2020.

• The Mantra 60 refugees have been moved to the Park Hotel in Carlton. You can go protest!
• Divest your bank and super!
• Support your unions! AUWU, RAHU and RAFFWU are kicking goals and need the support.
• Watch Mitch on the Drum!
• Listen to Auspol Snackpod!

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Kristina Kerscher Keneally has urged the NSW Government to slow down on reforms to drug laws.

• Australia is still on fire. Fraser Island has been burning since October.
• “This shouldn’t be happening. This is just crazy. This is completely terrifying” — David Bowman, professor of fire ecology at the University of Tasmania
• Jim’s article highlighting Gippsland fire survivors.
• Fires aren’t supposed to happen in Australian rainforests.
• After last years fires, the government announced a $4.2 billion emergency response fund, of which $0 has been spent, and a $2.1 billion fund bushfire recovery fund, of which $1.2 billion has been actually distributed to the ruined towns.

• Jim’s article on Australia caring more about the meme than the war crimes.
• China and Australia are in a meme war.
• This was in retaliation to the Australian-Japan defence agreement, and Morrison calling for an investigation to into China’s Coronavirus handling.
• The image cannot be not called anything but “fake”, “doctored” or “computer generated”.
• Australian soliders were photographed doing a shoey from a dead Taliban fighter’s prosthetic leg.
• Minister for resources Matt Canavan has called for an end to Australia’s “abusive relationship” with China.
• Buying Australia’s wine in solidarity.
• 60 Australian coal ships are stranded off the coast of Chin, for up to 24 weeks.

• The Australian newspaper is spruiking coal in an 8-page lift-out on how amazing coal is.
• It’s an annual tradition — they ran a coal liftout in 2019 as well.
• Mining company Santos sponsors cars for the Queensland police.
• Energy Minister Angus Taylor calls for the State Governments to get back in line with federal (lack of) policy.
• The UN climate summit president has thanked Australian states — but not the federal government — for their action on climate change.
• Scott Morrison has dropped the plan to use “Kyoto carryover credits”.

• ACTU head Sally McManus calls for halving of insecure work by 2030.
• Meanwhile Industrial Relations minister Christian Porter has moved to allow bosses to change worker’s hours, duties and location arbitrarily.
• …and proposed additional powers to break up unions.
• From 2018, the laws were supposed to change to allow casual workers to move to permanent part time.

• Listen to Mitch on the Highbrow Drivel podcast.
• Shoutout to the Gamil Means No protest against Santos.

• Join the AUWU protest against the cuts to the Jobkeeper rate on December 12.
• Follow Jim on Twitter, read his work in Junkee and listen to Vocal Minory RRR.

• Former Finance Minister Matias Cormann is trying to get a job at the OECD.

• NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian had an affair with corrupt MP Daryl Maguire, facing no consequences.
• She gave $40,000 to Daryl Maguire’s electorate from her own discretionary fund.
• Berejiklian took a COVID test, but didn’t isolate for the 90 minutes she had to wait for the results.
• Evidence from reconstituted shredded documents shows that the NSW Liberals heavily pork-barrelled the last election.

• Virginia Trioli doesn’t vote.
• Real Dr. Manhattan vibes.
• Yes, her husband’s name is actually Skelton, not Skeleton. But he know’s what he’s doing. Also their child is a boy, not a girl. Whatever. Who cares. ALL POINTS STILL STAND.

• Dollarmites are dead. (in Victoria at least)
• They used to be cute aliens, now they’re terrifying CG children.
• There’s little evidence that in-school banking programs actually help children learn to save.
• Banks hate regulations, and are lobbying hard to roll back “responsible lending” laws.
• Afterpay and similar non-bank credit services are becoming increasingly popular.
• They claim they are “not a payments system”.
• Afterpay line go up..
• The Committee on Financial Technology and Regulatory Technology will be releasing it’s recommendations on the matter next year.

• The Narrabri gas project has been approved!
• That’s nice, they seem like such good customers of the local coffee van.
• The NSW government is looking to fast-track new mine approvals, including 850 new gas wells.
• The Minerals Council is just a smol business.

• Check out the Hidden Cities podcast, on Victorian housing policy.
• And the Floodcast podcast on Labor party political assassination attempts.
• Shoot the Dollarmite in your brain and change your bank.

• South Australia went into lockdown for six days, and weren’t happy about it.
• The man who lied to contract tracers and was working multiple jobs is being hounded by the media and South Australian government.
• Migrant workers don’t receive any income support.

• The Federal Government knew the Robodebt scheme was illegal at least as early as 2017.
• Alan Tudge — one of the ministers responsible, threatened victims of the illegal scheme with prison.
• The government’s settlement payout to the victims of Robodebt comes to a total of… $280 per person.
• Gordon Legal knew the government ministers were personally responsible.
• Government Services Minister Stuart Robert used this settlement as a way to claim that the government are actually in good and in the right for ending the scheme, as if they weren’t forced.
• Peter Van Onselen points out that the Robodebt scheme was actually started by Scott Morrison, so don’t expect to see any consequences.
• “If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there’s no progress” — Malcolm X.
• Alan Tudge claims his affair with a staffer was the biggest mistake of his life.

• We’ve known about Australian soliders commiting war crimes for a long time. This article from 2009 reports on an event in 2004 and says that we owe the Afagani people an apology. This commanding officer of this operation, Jim Molan
• Alleged war criminal Jim Molan is now a Liberal Party Senator
• Commando Kevin Frost in 2016 publicly confessed to covering up the shooting of a captive, and called for his own punishment. In 2019 he committed suicide.
• In 2017, the ABC released the “Afgan Files”, revealing leaked reports for war crimes.
• In response, the Australian Federal Police raided the ABC offices, and home of News Corp jounalist Annika Smethurst. The warrants were ruled invalid and no charges were laid.
• The Onion got it right again.
• Decorated SAS Corporal Ben Roberts-Smith allegedly kicked a handcuffed Afgani prisoner off a cliff.
• Roberts-Smith sued the Age for defamation over this report, resulting in the court-ordered release of documents showing his involvement in the war crimes. Maybe not the sharpest tool in the shed.
• Even after these Allegations, the ABC had Ben-Robert Smith giving the Remembrance Day address.
• Labor’s shadow defence minister Richard Marles: “It would be a tragedy if Australians were to see our nation’s involvement in Afghanistan solely through the prism of these allegations”.
• Former PM John Howard, who sent these soliders to war, says the culture of the military is mostly fine. Just a few bad apples.

• Bendigo dairy workers at Lactalis went on strike, and got a pay rise and jobs guarantee out of it.
• Climate-change denier and general crank Craig Kelly is facing a grassroots campaign to be removed from office.

• Ask your local cafe to stop stocking the local Murdoch rag. Direct action campaigns can work. The Sun was kicked out of Liverpool after their their coverage of the Hillsborough Football disaster.

• Turns out government ministers Alan Tudge and Christian Porter are mega mondo sleazes.
• This is in violation of then-PM Malcolm Turnbull’s “bonk ban”, following Barnaby Joyce’s affair with staffer Vikki Campion.
• Rumours of Barnaby Joyce’s affairs were circulating for months before factional enemies provided evidence.
• Vikki Campion says the “bonk ban protects no-one”.
• Alan Tudge voted very strongly against gay marriage.
• He has also engaged in “criminal conduct”, not releasing a refugee in detention after being ordered to by court.
• Gladys Berejiklian called for changing the National Anthem from “we are young and free” to “we are one and free”.
• Scott Morrison mansplained an answer directed to Families and Social Services Minister Anne Ruston.
• Oh, Anne Ruston who says that the government’s budget is good for women, because women drive on roads?

• Joel Fitzgibbon has quit his position as Labor’s shadow minister for resources.
• Fitzgibbon is a fossil-fuel loving climate denier.
• Joe Biden’s election in the US is making Australians politicians consider that perhaps they should consider mentioning the existence of the climate.
• Or maybe Fitzgibbon is taking a swing at Labor leadership.
• Joel Fitzgibbon inherited the seat of Hunter from his father, Eric.
• The coal mines in the Hunter electorate produce terrible air quality for the residents.
• Georgina Downer absolutely cannot get elected in her father’s former seat.

• Greens Senator Sarah Hanson Young successfully tabled and won a vote on a Senate inquiry into Murdoch media.
• Rudd got into a shitfight with the Greens on twitter, then begrudgingly thanked the Greens tabling of the motion as “Labor and the minor parties”.
• In 2012, there was another review into media diversity, which was not acted on by Labor government at the time.
• Kevin Rudd is the godfather of the Australian’s former editor-in chief Chris Mitchell.

• The Victorian state government has pledged to spend $5.3 billion on expanding social housing.
• The government has a track record of pledging to build things and not doing so.
• It’s possible to talk about two things at once (climate deniers hate this one weird trick).
• For the love of god stop this shit.
• Victorian Parliament voted for a Green New Deal… let’s see what happens.

• Read some pieces by friends of show:

  • Jim Malo on why white journalists need to STFU and stop platforming nazis.
  • James Clark of No Turning Back on Joel Fitzgibbon’s appeasement of the fossil fuel industry.
  • Nicholas Daniel on the Australian Labor party’s right-wing poltics.
• Include traditional place names if you send mail! After a campaign by Gomeroi woman Rachel McPhail, Australia post is now accepting tradition place names on envelope addresses. Find the country you live on here.

• In sad news, Anthony Van Dyke has died.
• The real heros stoically stayed home.

• In Victorian local government elections, the Greens and Socialists have swept into power.
• Yarra council is the first majority-Green council in Australia.
• Some council elections are also dominated by cooked units.

• Victoria is going to build the biggest battery in the southern hemisphere.
• Other bigger batteries exist in the world.

• Coal mine Adani have rebranded to “Bravus”.
• Detention centre operator Transfield Services renamed themselves to “Broadspectrum” after the founding family withdrew the name rights due to bad publicity.
• Oat milk company Oatly was bought by Trump-linked investment firm Blackstone.
• NRL team Cowboys faced backlash after they launched their new jerseys with “Bravus” branding.
• People in Goa are joining the protest against Adani.

• Former Trump senior advisor Steve Bannon called for a beheading, and was promptly banned from Twitter.
• In response to the banning, 4 Corners host Sarah Fergusun strenuously defended her decision to playform Bannon.
• Steve Bannon was formerly platformed on ABC’s 4 Corners program.
• It took a defence of the Christchurch massacre to end Milo Yiannopoulos’s career in Australia.
• Bannon doesn’t care if his points get through. The platform is the point.
• Friend of the show Jim Malo is ready for white journalists to shut the fuck up when it comes to “debating” those who think people of color should not exist.
• Annabell Crabb is party responsible for the laundering of Scott Morrison’s reputation.

• Anthony Albanese wants to give the Government “space” to improve Jobseeker payments on their own.
• He’s willing to take a stand on a big issues though, like congratulating Joe Biden on winning the US election.

• Oh, we’ve got a new day! A day of thanks!
• Looks like a mirror of the pushes to Clap for Carers and to Bong Big Ben for Brexit.
• 2021: Cutting up a nurse Ooshie on TV.

• Nationalise garbage collection.
• Make the Prime Minister uncomfortable.

• It’s NAIDOC week. Learn the country you live on, maybe put it on a letter.
• Pay the rent.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

• 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.

• Scott Morrison was supposed to attend a national cabinet meeting, buts turns out he was at a fundraiser.
• He probably could have called in, or taken another plane.
• Kevin Rudd on visiting a strip club: “Oh no, this won’t do”.

• The Victorian government okayed 500 horse owners to attend the Cox Plate race event, while the rest of Victoria is completely locked down.
• The decision to allow the owners to attend was quickly reversed, though the race still ran.
• The AFL Grand Final is the people’s game.
• A public holiday was introduced in 2015.
• Horse racing billionaire Jonathan Munz is funding a high court challenge to Victorian’s lockdown laws.
• Tom Waterhouse admits his sports betting brand was “highly polarising”.
• Australia has the highest gambling losses per captia in the world.
• Many football teams are supported by gambling revenues.

• The government loves mining more than mining companies.
• In good news, all of South Australia’s power is coming from solar panels.
• Sun Cable is proposing the world’s largest solar power plant in the Northern Territory.
• The Queensland Resources Council claims that their industry employs 20% of the Queensland population.

• The AFL has cut ties with Rio Tinto, after the company destroyed Juukan Gorge.
• Essendon player Joe Daniher has called on the AFL to cut ties with BHP and Rio Tinto.
• Yet you participate in society. Curious! I am very intelligent.
• The Wallabies refused to take a knee in support of black lives matter.

• Go kick a football in the park!
• Listen to Auspol Snack Pod!
• Listen to Evie’s wild theories on the film Brave.