Shell's accountants predict the Dutch giant will never pay Australia for gas extracted at the Gorgon and Prelude LNG projects that it can sell for up to about $4 billion a year. Peter Milne from independent energy and climate news site Boiling Cold has the story....

 Coral bleaching near Lizard Island on the Great Barrier Reef during 2016.

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Once an agenda setter, Q&A is no longer essential viewing

The ABC’s “town hall” discussion show was always divisive - a feisty finale to Monday’s current affairs line-up. Shunted to Thursdays, it struggles to be heard.


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 FAKE NEWS AND MISINFORMATION EXPOSED

 Former Labor MP claims he was 'censored' from speaking against Palestine recognition

Former Labor MP claims he was ‘censored’ from speaking against Palestine recognition

Former Labor MP Michael Danby says he has been "suppressed" and "censored" by his party from speaking at a national party convention about his concerns regarding its official recognition of Palestine policy. Mr Danby said the party's right faction had asked for an amendment - which was withdrawn without his agreement - that no taxpayers' money be used to "fund terrorists". "We asked... no Australian taxpayers' money be used to fund terrorist salaries of ex-murderers, that there be no misogynist or homophobic legislation in the Palestinian Authority," he said. "Now we've got this unconditional change to Australian foreign policy recognising Palestine as a priority. "There are bombers flying over Taipei every night from China, there's a military coup in Burma where 500 people are killed, there's COVID rampaging across PNG - that's not a priority. "Then when I used the standing orders as a credentialed delegate ... to ask formally and informally for the right to speak against Penny Wong's report, to make some of these modest points about the craziness of giving this priority and unconditionality, I'm suppressed and censored. Mr Danby called for an apology from Penny Wong for being "discriminated against", stating Ms Wong and her "socialist, left mates" denied his legitimate right to speak. 
 
 Andrew Bolt is amazed because it's something you don't see in the Liberal Party these days. It's called Democracy. It's a concept that Bolt has spent his media life running from. The Labor Party even runs it's conventions in plain sight. Allowing the right wing press and commentators an easy time to kick  own goals trying to criticize what it is a Democratic process they are witness to. Burma hasn't been a priority for the LNP Andrew Bolt and they are our Government now! The Labor Party were debating what was to be their priorities at the next election not every topic appropriate in the time available. Danby wanted to speak to Palestine and wasn't able. Yes it's common knowledge that individuals in Democracies don't always agree but when the ALP is concerned Bolt calls it division. But Danby un like Craig Kelly is still be a member of the party.

 One only needs to get the gist of what he's about on the Bolt Report where Bolt's guests are a chorus to his preconceived auto cued introduction of his idea. They are a tag team members chosen to support his misinformation. If by chance anybody happens to sneak on the show and disagrees with him there's an automatic respones "we've run out of time love to have you back to talk about this some more" and that then never happens. Best case that comes to mind was with James Matheson who simply rang rings around Bolt and was cut dead by Bolt's protector producers.

 Claims of ‘passive racism’ in Captain Underpants book are ‘concerning’

Claims of ‘passive racism’ in Captain Underpants book are ‘concerning

 Sky News Digital Editor Jack Houghton says he finds it “strange” a Captain Underpants book was recently pulled over a complaint of “passive racism”. The book’s publisher and author pulled the book following the complaint and have issued an apology. “I found the book wholly uncontroversial, but maybe I’ve failed the woke Rorschach test,” Mr Houghton told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “The thing that I found really interesting about this though was this phrase ‘passive racism’, the ABC used this in a headline today describing this book”. “That really concerns me because what that really is taking away from, is intent.” 

When you have nothing really current to say, because Conservatives are making public idiots of and  culturally embarrassing  themselves, call in the PR agents to take over the damage control. Morrison has dropped an unheard of  25 rating points among Australian women and he's truly fucked up the vaccine roll out. 

So call in the equally incompetent distraction team to try to save the day. Turn the focus on Captain Underpants that will certainly not do it ? First steal and flip the term "woke" and use it to attack the left. "I failed the woke Rorschach test"simply proves their idiots. 

Bolt's a general supporter of "private business" being able to make free market choices and decisions but not so here . No here there's a level of collectivist pressure being applied by these two on a publisher whose made a choice but one their collective doesn't like. The ABC as reporters echoed the publisher's reasons for withdrawing the book and as responsible journalists do and with "impartially". But no, their's is a hidden intent crystal clear to Bolt and Houghton, so the banging of their warning drum on Sky. What is crystal clear is they have tried to steer their audience away from the main events of the day that have been taking place over the course of weeks, and that's incompetence of the Morrison government. 

China has 'gone out of its way' to 'stop us learning the truth'

China has ‘gone out of its way’ to ‘stop us learning the truth’

 Sky News host Andrew Bolt says “we must understand” how COVID-19 started but China has gone out of its way “to stop us from learning the truth”. “That's very suspicious,” Mr Bolt said. It comes after the World Health Organization's Director-General declared the first report into the origins of COVID-19 shows that the “assessment was not extensive enough” and the theory the virus originated in a laboratory “requires further investigation”. Mr Bolt spoke to Flinders University Professor Nikolai Petrovsky to discuss the recently released World Health Organization report into the origins of COVID-19. “We need to know the origins of this virus,” Professor Petrovksy said. “Currently we can speculate about a possible animal source, we can speculate about a leak from a laboratory in Wuhan. “But the truth is at the moment we don’t have access to the information that we require to actually make that assessment. “So again, this report is limited in its scope and it’s disappointing that they still express, I think, quite unbalanced opinions about the relative merits of those different sources of the virus."

 There are 200 nations around the world and only 15 have criticized the WHO's report on the investigations into the origins of COVID-19. Their criticism isn't even directed at the report as much as it is even trying to establish a viable in the first place because they already know what the answers are. Now if there is a theory that the virus was leaked from a lab then it would be quite an embarrassment for both China and the US given the US involvement withe the lab in question. However whats being said here other than "All serious investigations by their very nature result in skeptical conclusions. Therefore this is an investgative study. It's conclusions are then skeptical". Isn't that a circular argument?

The better question asks which is the more likely conclusion based on real information and data collected or pure politically biased ones plucked from air to back preconceived interests and goals?

 ABC 'grossly exaggerated' Fukushima disaster deaths

ABC ‘grossly exaggerated’ Fukushima disaster deaths

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says "a green fib is a fib in a good cause" after the ABC "grossly exaggerated" the death toll of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, which claimed the lives of "precisely zero people". "Three weeks ago I pointed out on this show that the ABC had once again grossly exaggerated a nuclear incident," he said. "This time it implied 18,000 people had died in Japan 10 years ago when the nuclear reactor at Fukushima was knocked out by an earthquake and then a tsunami; a deadly disaster, claimed the ABC. "Two minutes of research would have told the ABC that the Fukushima incident didn't kill 18,000 people or even 18 - precisely zero people died and none are ever likely to, says the UN's top nuclear body. "The Minerals Council then complained to the ABC about this anti-nuclear propaganda. Like I say, two minutes of research would have shown the ABC it was wrong, but it's taken the ABC three weeks to admit it."

Bolt criticizes the UN's WHO report one minute and praises  the UN's Mineral Council the next. However what Bolt makes look like the UN's top top nuclear body isn't The Mineral Council is Australia's lobby group. Bolt nevetheless looks like a man on a mission flaying around in the dark trying to pull rabbits out of a hat. What Bolt doesn't reveal that his number is disputed and that the score isn't in. His criticism of the ABC in the light of Bolt's trickery is false as there is still an ongoing dispute.

Fukishima had plenty of warning that an explosion was immanent the death toll is irrelevant to the death it caused sea life and destroyed usable land and the livlihoods of thousnds of people
"In 2018, 1 cancer death of a man who worked at the plant at the time of the accident was attributed to radiation exposure by a Japanese government panel.[9][10] It has been suggested that 2,202 died as a result of the stresses of evacuation.[11] The overall death count as a result of the accident is disputed.[by whom?]"

 What is clear

 UK school's decision banning playtime to eliminate bullying is 'lazy' and 'atrocious'

UK school’s decision banning playtime to eliminate bullying is ‘lazy’ and ‘atrocious’

Child psychologist Clare Rowe says she thinks it is “atrocious” a school in the UK has taken away playtime at lunch to eliminate bullying, considering the kids have only just come out of months of lockdown. It comes as a UK school claims to have almost eliminated bullying by banning games like football during breaks, with students instead participating in supervised quizzes and poetry recitals. “You can’t make intrinsically someone love even learning – some kids just don’t – whether that’s English poetry or not some kids just do not like school," she told Sky News host Andrew Bolt. “There are 10-year-old boys who I see every day who say the best part about school is lunchtime – because I get to kick my footy around and I get to let off a bit of steam.” “These kids have just come out of months and months of lockdown – and now we are telling them you can’t play the footy now … you have got to sit and study Yeats.”

Don't believe has anything to do with "lock downs" it's larger than tah and selected as an argument against  against "safe schools".  The "lock down" is an excuse and a distraction to make it appear that safe schools would have a negative impact on kids and the culture we have now and shouldn't be changed. Had Bolt approached any psychologist on the basis of how to stop bullying he'd have got an entirely different answer. 

Sports in schools isn't a must or a worldwide phenomena. It certainly isn't in Finland and other countries. Boys don't all need football breaks they are extracurricular activities. There isn't a distinction between girls and boys activities Bolt is simply gaslighting you

 NSW Education Dept 'using racism to excuse any failure' of minorities

NSW Education Dept is ‘using racism to excuse any failure’ of minorities

The NSW education department is "still using racism to excuse any failure of some other groups" or minorities, says Sky News host Andrew Bolt. "The NSW Education Department. What the hell is it up to? Why has it decided to teach white students to hate themselves and the rest of the class to hate their country?" he said. "This mad department has now got an online race sensitivity course for students called 'RacismNoWay' – that preaches to our children the kind of inflammatory race politics already tearing America apart. "I will bet that you have never seen an education course in this country that is so destructive, ignorant, dishonest, defeatist, divisive, racist, and petty. "And to think this poison is pumped into our schools by an Education Minister, Sarah Mitchell, of a supposedly Liberal government. "I say this 'RacismNoWay' course is destructive because it trashes Australia, claiming it is riddled with institutional racism and is only lucky for a select few, with racist schools just reflecting white middle-class values. "That's why I say this course is also defeatist. It's telling those to give up, not try harder. And it's racist because it suggests only whites are racists."

Bolt is a neo-Nazi post war German critics argued the same thing why were the Hitler youth forced to hate themselves and the rest of the class forced to hate their country. It's quite simple because if you have a Nazi culture an mindset it was wrong and if you have a racist culture it's wrong. The Germans are still teaching the wrongs of their past. We aren't and Bolt is railing at the idea that we need to. It doesn't preach the politics of the American past as being ours at all. We aren't about to have a civil war. The notion of equivalence is a poor mans trick rather than a substantive argument that teaching


Left-mob 'trying to turn this country into a new Salem': Bolt

Left-mob ‘trying to turn this country into a new Salem’: Bolt

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says the left-mob is "trying to turn this country into a new Salem", as the "pack attack" on female LNP Senator Amanda Stoker ramps up following her appointment to the Federal Cabinet. "The crazy story about male politicians making parliament hell for women has changed. Now it's women making hell for other women," Mr Bolt said. "Now, we see a pack attack on Amanda Stoker, the very talented young Queensland Senator who was promoted this week by Prime Minister Scott Morrison to Assistant Minister for Women. "Still not good enough, cried women of the Left. Stoker has criticised women playing the gender card. She criticized the Queensland government's bid to decriminalise abortion. "How deaf were her critics, now trying to de-platform Stoker, too, to cancel her as a woman who's supposedly anti-woman? "These people are trying to turn this country into a new Salem. They are a menace to our culture and an embarrassment to themselves. Stand with Stoker. People like her – they represent our better future." 

Bolt is really a pathetic advocate uninvited by anybody to get involved. He's simply so bad at it. Morrison appointing women to  his cabinet hasn't done anything at all to change the culture of the LNP. He hasn't sacked a single man with more than a tsk tsk. That's the point not a few women are making but lots are. There are of course women who have benefited from the Canberra boys club they are the women who haven't spoken against it. Morrison's reference to a female PM was an amplification of his patronising attitude

 As for Stoker she has a  history which is the reason for the female fury and it again reflects on Morrison's incompetence in believing he's made a stellar choice, and that it would calm things down. Stoker is a supporter of Bettina Ardnt who supported Grace Tame's convicted child molester as being the victim of draconian laws. Yes Stoker has a history of being against the transgender community because she believes sexuality is a choice. She's anti abortion, the minimum wage, and unfair dismissal all of which impact more on women than men. So to say she represents "change" is a fools message.

  The problem for Morrison and Bolt it's not just the cry of who Bolt calls "frightbats" it the cry of women from both and across all parties, races, and genders even by people that have benefited from the sexist culture that exists.  Every side of the fence and not just the left are involved. Stoker is by no means a victim she is being labelled as an historical victimiser.