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Fossil Fuel Fiesta: Australia’s coal and gas giants get more in subsidies than they pay in royalties

by Callum Foote | May 26, 2021 | Energy & Environment

Australia’s fossil fuel miners and drillers may be receiving more in government subsidies than they pay in royalties. An investigation by Callum Foote lifts the lid on the transfer of wealth from the public to foreign-controlled resources companies.

 

Talk of war with China reveals Australia's delusions of grandeur

THE LAST MAJOR CONFLICT in the Pacific ended over 75 years ago. Japan, the United States, China and the European colonial powers fought a war that cost millions of lives. It contributed to the downfall of several empires and overturned the regional political order.

Further, the American use of atomic bombs against Japan led to subsequent generations living with the fear of nuclear war.

Public figures in Australia who are now loudly predicting that a war with China is looming, ought to think carefully about something like this scenario playing out again. No matter what the behaviour of the Chinese regime is, or what the status of bilateral relations are, war is not an option.

 

JOHN PILGER: Another Hiroshima is coming unless we stop it now

With racially-motivated aggression towards China escalating, it's important to reflect on history to avoid the catastrophe of nuclear war.

Australian Politics

Dennis Atkins: PM’s four favourite ways to tell a lie

Executive shake-up

Senate inquiry calls for PM to apologise to Holgate and Aus Post chair to resign

Morrison’s Higgins investigation a very revealing cover-up

Brittany Higgins |

In the Morrison Government, it seems, it’s not nearly as important to know who knew what happened – or when – in the Brittany Higgins ...

 

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DAMN IT, GET VACCINATED. AND GET MORRISON CRACKING

Melbourne has been shut down again. What a failure of public policy - and Scott Morrison cannot escape blame. Nor can the Australians who refuse to get vaccinated.

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May 27, 2021 - 11:59AM

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Melbourne’s latest virus outbreak should send Australians a message: damn it, go get vaccinated.

It should also send a message to the Morrison government: get off your backside.

It’s crazy that Melbourne is once again teetering on the edge of yet another devastating city lock down, after 15 people got infected.

Shutting down Melbourne for the fourth time would represent another massive failure of public policy, this time caused by politicians too complacent about keeping Australians in their golden cage.

Look around the world.

Countries smashed by the virus – Britain and the US – are opening up after a huge campaign of vaccinations.

But Australia, which was barely touched, looks close to shutting down its second biggest city.

Andrew Bolt has been in self imposed lock down since the 17/5/21.

One might think he never really was or is the author of his own blog site and that his staff writer has been away. The war in Israel which he claims to be so passionate about hardly got a mention. His last blog complaint was that he couldn't leave the country. He'd been robbed of that "privilege". Here he is now telling us to "get vaccinated" as if we are the ones holding him back and not Morrison's LNP government. The media, of which Bolt is a central figure, has played a major part in the public reluctance of some Australians to wait.They sensationalized the negative unintended consequences of the science of public health just as they generally do Climate Change pointing out and encouraging doubt.

 However the real blame is on Greg Hunt and the LNP who after 3 months have managed to only vaccinate 2% of the population. They have done little or nothing about their quarantine responsibilities and have generally sat back and blamed the states for any failures. The origin of this current lock down is Adelaide or India but the it's the Commonwealth's failed quarantine system has caused our heartache. Let's not forget just how unimportant the origins are to Bolt's insistence on naming them according to their origin. In this case calling it Victorian or Chinese is totally missing the point. Like the misnamed Spanish Flu we might as well call it Dutch.  Meanwhile what we do know is Morrison and Hunt are the ones wh have mismanaged our problem and made us 113th in the world when it comes to vaccination roll out programs. They have sat back bragging while ignoring our roll out and vaccination programs. 29 aged-care facilities have been entirely ignored while Morrison keeps on crowing how good he is.

Andrew Bolt from the get go has been against lock downs,against the mandatory wearing of masks, has been blaming the ALP in Victoria and maintaining only the vulnerable need to be vaccinated yet even his favored conservatives have belly flopped. It seems he is one of the "only 2%" that have been vaccinated and now wants his freedom, his privilege to travel. Yes it's a privilege not available to everyone and one that trivial to the much larger issue, Public Health. Go buy a boat Bolt, isolate and sail solo and privileged.