This is a proposal for a koala strike. For as long as the Albanese government continues to approve fossil fuel projects, there should be a ban on ministers entering zoos and animal parks for photo opportunities.
It is indicative of how backwards we have become that some in the Coalition are still promoting a new coal-fired power plant for north Queensland, even though there is no net demand for power in the region, even though major international banks won’t fund it, even though equity investors are equally reluctant...
Not surprisingly, with so much on its plate, the government can afford to treat the Aston byelection as something of a sideshow. It sees it as secondary to getting on with its three ‘Rs’ of ‘relief, repair and restraint’.
At its least, the roundtable may be a wake-up call for the media, which has been far too sleepy about protecting its patch as all these incursions and legal impediments have built up around it.
Say what you will about Peter Dutton, he is a truly terrible person. He is a man best known for his awfulness. When newspapers speak to his friends, most of them ask to be anonymous. The best they can say is he’s funny.
The issues of sustainability and the environmental and social impacts of their activities are certainly now on the agendas of most businesses, and corporate boards are having to lift their game to recognise these longer-term responsibilities.
Dutton has decided to leave any final decision on the Voice referendum until after the Aston byelection. His carefully crafted apology does enough to leave the impression he is more sympathetic to the referendum than his naysaying would suggest, without locking him in to supporting it.
The ultimate reason for that is the big brutal fact that the DSR almost certainly evades: we will face the dangers of the decades ahead alone. The Albanese government doesn’t understand this any better than the Morrison government did. Richard Marles often talks about ‘self-reliance’, but he doesn’t mean it.
This week, not quite to the hour, as Behrouz Boochani spoke in Parliament House, the Albanese government moved to suspend standing orders. It did not want debate on a bill to redesignate Nauru as a regional processing centre.
We should accept that a recession, even a mild one, is the route the RBA may be heading down, given the risk that it mirrors its delayed action on raising interest rates, by moving too slowly to cut.