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We chat with Celeste Liddle, Greens candidate for Cooper, about unionism, protest and speedrunning Spyro the Dragon.   Celeste Liddle for Cooper! 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”? Actions Volunteer, host a placard or donate to help Celeste's campaign. Come to the the Celestival at the Tote! It's gonna be sick.  

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QLD and NSW are underwater, again. Knives are out for the prime minister. FU Pay is not good. The budget is discussed.   Floodcast (not that one) 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. Everybody hates Scott 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. FU PAY Me 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. Budget spectacular 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. Actions Volunteer for a better political party.

Carbon credits are a big scam. David Koch fantasies about cutting the rope.   Carbon Credits! 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? Blockade Sunrise 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. Shoutouts 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!  

We get Adelaidepilled, then talk about the federal court ruling that the Environment Minister doesn't have a duty of care after all.   Adelaidepilled The election in South Australia saw large swings against the Liberals. The new Premier said some okay things. Fair enough! 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. A harder place to live 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! Actions Speak up when you can! Find your community. It's not your job but you've gotta do it anyway.

We talk about the power of polyps and the power of community.   Blobbing along 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. Floating in a pork barrel 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. Actions Talk to a neighbors. Save yourself from reading, listen to a podcast instead.  

The government ignores the IPCC report and the floods. Warnie ruled though.   Fucking around / finding out 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. Floodcast (not that one) 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”. RIP Warnie 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” Actions 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.

No pod this week! The vibes shifted too hard.   Instead, tune in to our pals over at Boonta Vista, raising funds for Sikh Volunteers Australia, Lismore SES and Loop Growers Brisbane.

Australia's largest coal power plant is shutting down early, Scott Morrison is good at diplomacy, and Grace Tame is cool.   On the tools Scott Morrison, welding expert. Good news! 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. Demanding forgiveness 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”. Secretly working for China 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. Grace Tame is cool 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. Actions Pay the Rent! There's a way to actually make reparations. Share the podcast! Leave a review!

It's a good* news week!   International news Anthony Albanese reassures the nation that no-one cares if he wins or not. Good* news 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. Bigotry begone? 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 succeeds in succeeding, the Religious Discrimination bill is bad and aged care is in cri—.   International news 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. Religious discrimination 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! Aged care is in cri— 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. Textgate 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. Shoutouts 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.

The Aged Care minister goes to the cricket, the NDIS is a complicated octopus and Scott Morrison gets the respect he deserves.   Weather talk Ever year, we see more and more once-in-a-century days for it. Aged careless 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. A system of vouchers 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. Treating Scott Morrison with the respect he deserved 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.  

Meat just keeps getting spilled, everyone's back working for the economy and the Labor party loves doing borders.   Okay here's the meat Meatspill 2: Meating of the Meats It's the economy, and you're stupid 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! Vaccine nationalism 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. Shoutouts 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?

Australia's Unions post through it, it's very very hot, and Hillsong have a big party.   Posting through it 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. It's hot! 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. Praise be! 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. Shoutouts Fuck australia day. Donate to Pay the Rent and Sisters Inside.

Rats, we forgot to order any RATs! Also Mitch talks to Emerald Moon from the Serious Danger podcast about Green politics, Byron life and loud music.   Circle of self-indulgence 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. Byron punks Listen to the Serious Danger podcast! Listen to Class War Listen to Eye of the Enemy Rex Hunt on Byron hardcore. Shoutouts 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.

We talk about Shell's acquisition of Powershop and the cool cool Labor party.   Power flop 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. Opposition party? 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. Actions 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!  

We're all recording in the same room for the first time in 91 episodes! It's a bit chaotic. Also some news is discussed.   Blocked Blockade 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. Schools out for parliament 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). Who wedgies the wedgier? Scott Morrison lied about whether he said he was going on holiday specifically to Hawaii?  

MQFF help pinkwash apartheid, Dani Laidley returns as a hero, and the Victorian Pride Lobby release a massive report on LGBTIQA+ people's feelings toward police.   Pinkwashing 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. Returning hero 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. Pride lobby 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.  

Heroes keep stopping coal trains, Scott Morrison has never told a lie and Australia wins at Climate Golf. Hero watch 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 Never lying 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. Climate Change Performance 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. Shoutouts 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.

Farm workers are now entitled to a minimum wage, some guy got smashed and crashed his car. Also some dudes went to Glasgow and talked about submarines or something.   Minimum wage news The Fair Work Commission has ruled that farm workers must be paid a minimum wage! This means that some workers are entitled to an 830% pay rise. Shoutout to the Australian Workers Union for bringing this complaint. Minister for Agriculture David Littleproud (who previously worked as an Agribusiness Banker) says he's mostly worried about supermarket prices. Slimeball news Victorian Liberal MP Tim Smith got incredibly drunk and smashed his car into a house. Liberal party leader Mathew Guy asked his mate to not recontest the next election, but not to resign just yet. Behind the scenes, Tim Smith pushed against conversion therapy within the Liberal party. Federal Liberal party members are urging Tim Smith to stay in politics. He's said now he won't recontest the next election. Inaction news Scott Morrison went to the COP26 conference and yelled at an empty room. His speech was full of bullshit. At the 2009 Paris Conference, rich countries pledge $100 billion to developing countries to help them build resilience to climate change. None has been given. Angus Taylor went there to push for carbon capture. Australia brought a Santos-sponsored display to the climate conference. Morrison likened climate change to Coronavirus, saying we'll be saved by new technologies. Shame the government has massively cut funding for energy research. Labor is selling totes about it. They also want to give the government “the room” to arrive at a policy in his own time. Simon Kofe, a minister in Tuvalu highlighted the folly of the big nations, speaking half-submerged in water. Madagascar is paying the price for cheap flights and high emissions.  

Evie sits down with Justin Warren for a good long chat about what's up with all the internet legislation the government is pushing.   Justin Warren is a board member at Electronic Frontiers Australia. You can follow him on Twitter. Proposed legislation 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! Other things discussed How to write a policy submission. How Mastercard uses it's power to control who can do things online. Actions 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.

Governments are marking up the next IPCC report with track changes. Chistian Porter has a secret vault of cash and no-one wants to look inside.   Climate action 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. Climate inaction 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. Big bux Porter 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! Shoutouts 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 say they believe in climate change now. Don't take their word for it. We also discuss whether buying billboards is effective climate activism.     News Corp are climate activists? 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. Labor can't deny 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. School struck for climate Carn the kids! The School Strike for Climate's demands. JokeKeeper ha ha 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. Shoutouts Shoutout to the AFL Players for Climate Action!

Gina Rinehart has terminal facebook brain, the nationals want to keep digging coal long after capital decides it's a bad idea, and we answer a listener question.   Upholding titles Police have recognised Traditional Owners' rights to practise culture on the land where the Adani mine is being built. Facebook brain Gina Rinehart made a totally cooked climate-denying speech to schoolchildren. Holding the Australian swim team hostage to wish you happy birthday. Cooking the planet 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. Actions Got a question? Send us an email! Get involved in something real! Don't get burned out.

Girlbosses are doing it (high level corruption) for themselves.   Bishop to Lithium 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. Big talk Rowe 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. F in the chat for Gladys 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. Actions Sign the petition to get gender affirming surgery into Medicare.

Hi-vis rallies: cool, cooked or complicated? Let's find out together.   Jeffrey Combs appreciation Watch Jeffrey Combs in the Frighteners. Treat denial Delivery workers at StarTrack and FedEx have struck for safer conditions. Workers from Cadbury and Accolade Wines have also struck for better pay. Hi-vis rallies 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. Shoutouts 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.

We have a lot to say about submarines. Also, shutting down public transport to stop a protest: Sensible tactic to calm things down or bad idea that'll just make things worse? If only I were writing this several days in the future and could see what would happen on Monday and Tuesday.   Three large sons 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. Top of the cops 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 Shoutouts to Joel Fitzgibbon, who is not recontesting the next election in Hunter, but has been highly effective at saying the quiet part loud.  

We're joined by climate journalist Lyndal Rowlands to discuss New Corp's two-week admission that climate change exists. Then we dig into reality show The Activist, and the weird people behind it.   Toot toot! Get on the Drilled Bus! The Drilled Podcast. Not Good Enough Episode 77: Care of Duty: Modern Lawfare Toot toot! Get on the Vaccine Bus! Jabba the Bus is coming for you. What works to Increase Vaccine Uptake (pdf link) Zero day 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. Activism, but make it very dumb 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. Actions Listen to Drilled. If you're in the Future: Listen to Damages! Follow Lyndal on Twitter!

The LNP want to give you a school chaplain to sooth your worries about climate change, and we discuss whether you can ever get away with a "BUT" after "death is horrible".   Banning Nazi stuff Victoria is banning swastikas and other Nazi symbols. IPA alumni Tim Wilson became Human Rights Commissioner, and then helped them out. Preaching to the choir 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. Covid zone “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.

JobSeeker was a massive corporate handout, Tasmanian Liberals don't want to frighten the kids, and the government gives millions of dollars to gas miners (with Labor's help).   Politics of envy 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”. Don't frighten the children! The Tasmanian Liberals voted down declaring a climate emergency, saying it was “scaring the children”. Flooding the sub-basin in cash 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. Meanwhile, in the private sector 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. Shoutouts 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.

The cops shut down food banks, people are snitching on kids, and everyone is at breaking point. Also Australia abandons Afghan people.   Bad times… Police are helping by shutting down food banks. In South Australia, the DHS chief executive is trying to shut down a communist soup kitchen. …vulnerable people 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. Give parents a break 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. VCAT fucked it 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. Abandoning Afghanistan 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. Actions You can have a look at my game if you like :)

NSW is LITERALLY at war the with virus. We discuss the IPCC report and what to do about it.   It's WAR 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”. Oh dear I left the gas on 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. Strong opposition 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) Hot takes 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. Actions 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.    

Pros and cons of chucking a sickie. Should the government should pay us $300 or give it to Tabcorp? TERF madness is spreading in Australia.   Sickie for the boys 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. Fuck you, pay me 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. Fortress Australia The walls of Fortress Australia keep getting higher. Some people will need to wait up to four years for Centerlink support. TERF wars 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. Actions Go get your bloody vaccine.  

The NSW Government almost got scammed out of half a billion dollars, and who knows what McKinsey are up to? At least we have a strong opposition to keep things in check.   Please stop making us do this 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. NSW Mask watch 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. Grifting goes national 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”. At least we have a strong opposition 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. Shoutouts 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. Actions Chuck us a review on Apple Podcasts. Change your power provider, if you're still buying power from a polluting company like Origin.  

FM radio hosts are sick of Morrison's shit. The reef is fine, guys, don't even worry about it. Gronks go wild across Australia.   Grilling the PM 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. Paying for the pleasure of digging our own graves Australia is shoveling shit-tonnes of cash into fossil fuel companies. Reef madness 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. Ring cycle 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. Gronks gone wild 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. Actions 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 isn't bighting, Australia is sending furries to the Olympics, and we're back in lockdown and cooking our brains.   No bighting Santos has decided not to drill for gas in the Great Australian Bight. (because it's not profitable) The first Furry Olympics 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. Shitting yourself at the Engadine Maccas Scott Morrison went on Kyle and Jackie O with a burning hot topic: He didn't shit himself at the Engadine Maccas. Lockdown again again again again 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). Actions Draw our fursonas

The Labor party are really sad without anyone to play with, the government has a new Vaccine ad, Questacon made a bad video.   The Labor party wants Scott Morrison 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. Good news! 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. NSW is fine I guess 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. Vaccine watch 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. Questacon con 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. Actions 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.  

We chat about Scott Morrison's accidental-on-purpose vaccine rollout, the reckless and deadly actions of Victoria Police, and the $660 million thrown at car parks in Liberal seats.     Cooked Generation 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. Vaccine Kings 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. Strongarm tactics 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”. Carport rort 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” Actions Pay the rent.

We spend about half an hour yelling about lockdowns. Sorry. Then we chat about what Australia's Environment Minister has been up to.   Lockdown again again 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. Ssussann Ley 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. Shoutouts Shoutout to the workers at General Mills who struck and won a pay rise and bonus!

The government is handing their homework in late and we tell you just how Both Parties Bad. Then we step into the Jordies discourse.     7th Ed. 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”. LNP Bad 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”. Labor Bad 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 Okay? 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. Actions 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!

We chat about the conspiracy theory running rampant on Victorian Telegram channels, then discuss the situation of the Biloela family, and how we got here.   DanAnon 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. Every elected representative in Australia is a literal demon from hell 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. Actions 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.

We discuss the cops who can't stop leaking sensitive information to abusers, Victoria's return to lockdown and the government ministers who keep forgetting that Grandma exists.     Porter stuff 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. Abusive leaks 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. Lockdown! 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. Aged care 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. Shoutouts Sign the petition to stop the planned cable-car up Mt Wellington in Hobart.

We're joined by legal expert Lauren to discuss the government's new duty of care to protect young people from the climate crisis. We also chat about international law and exploding coal power plants.   Defamation watch 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. The kids save the day 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. International good news 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. Exploding coal plants! 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”. Shoutouts Support the 3CR Radiothon!

We chat about hangovers, what's up with the energy sector (and who's getting the handouts), and the government simply refuses to deliver a vaccine.   Hangovers It was RAHU’s first birthday! Shoutout to the Renewables in Agriculture Conference. Energy sector 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 Pitts 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. Delivering a vaccine 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. Big wins! 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!

We talk about the media's narratives of omission, whether the subject is Kristina Keneally's necklace, the federal budget or the people of Palestine.     Drawing the line Kristina Kersher Keneally wore a necklace given to her by Kopi of Biloela family in Parliament… …while the Labor party passed a bill making indefinite detention legal, and allowing the immigration minister to strip people of refugee status. The supreme court originally ruled that stateless people could be held indefinitely in 2019. War crime media watch 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. One budget, please sir 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. Shoutouts 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.” Actions Attend one of the rallies happening across Australia this weekend in solidarity with the people of Palestine.

We keep up to date on the War consent manufacturing machine, chat about ACIC's claim that encryption is for criminals, and follow up on the jobseeker dob-in hotline.   Assault update The cop who beat up a Blak kid 11 months ago has been charged with assault. We talked about this back in episode 22. War chat 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. Encryption is for criminals 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. It’s dobseeker time 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. Robodebt settlement 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. Actions Join the Australian Unemployed Workers Union. Sign the petition to Save the Inks. Come to the RAHUGALA on May 22! Emergency action 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).

We review urgent reviews, talk about jail time for traveling to Australia from India, and discuss Andrew Laming's ADHD.   Urgent review review 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. India travel ban 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. War, we’re going to war 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. Laming 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

On the pod this week: stealing valor, cringing out of our skin, Scott Morrison's climate spin and children used as political pawns.   Thanks to special guest show-notes author, podcast host Tom Lang. Anzac Biscuit Day 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. I non-consensually drink your milkshake 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. Happy Corporate Greenwashing Day 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. Kristina Kerscher Keneally’s Kaptive Kid Korner 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.  

We talk about alleged war crimes, alleged lunch boxes, allegedly improper firing of CEOs and alleged plans fossil-fuel companys to pay nothing in resources taxes.   Lunchbox update 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. Holgategate 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. Gassed up 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. Shoutouts 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.

We chat about drama in the Health Minister's group chat, stripping the NDIS and check in with the Covid vaccine situation.   Good stuff! 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 hate poor people… 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”. …but love rich people 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. Vaccines 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. Shoutouts Shoutout to the workers at the McCormick food factory in Melbourne, who have been on strike, and fuckin won.