Episode Description
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.
- The biggest coal power plant in Australia is shutting 7 years early!
- They specifically avoided telling energy minister Angus Taylor about the plans.
- The Australian government has fought hard to keep fossil fuel plants spewing in the past.
- Angus Taylor is pissy about it.
- Of course, because the government refuses to consider any kind of transition, it’s the workers who lose.
- It’s not all good news… the mostly-Labor state governments are spending millions to prop up coal power plants.
- Scott Morrison used the commemoration address for Kevin Rudd’s apology to Indigenous people to tell them they should forgive settlers.
- As The First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria say, “get in the bin”.
- Scott Morrison and Peter Dutton are going hard on their “Labor is secretly working for China” narrative.
- The head of ASIO is now doing the media rounds saying “please don’t”.
- Labor MPs having been going off chops on TikTok.
- Samantha Maiden writes for news.com.au that Anthony Albonese had spoken a line of Mandarin at a Chinese trade association function.
- The Daily Mail published a photo of former Australian of the Year with a giant BONG.
- Tame released a great open letter eviscerating the media who tried to shit-sheet her.
- Duncan Storrar went on Q&A questioning welfare policies, and had his life dragged through the mud in response.
- Weed is a normal, popular thing in Australia.
- Liberal MP Dave Sharma posted that he’s “sure there’s a photo of me like that”, but has consistently voted for drug testing welfare recipients.
- Meanwhile, almost 70 thousand australians were arrested for weed possession.
- Pay the Rent! There’s a way to actually make reparations.
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