So, there's been Shit this past week. A lot of it based around an absolutely horrible domestic violence case up in Brisbane that makes me feel ill just thinking about it. So let's look at the other news.
The major opposition party is working on an agenda of zero net carbon emissions by 2050. Ambitious, but in terms of politics it's a long term plan and the sort of thing they're looking at doing in stages. The government, who are still trying to pretend that climate change isn't a real thing and even if it is real it totally isn't man-made and even if it is man-made so what the Rapture is coming soon and what about the coal WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE POOR COAL - ahem. The government has proceeded to start screaming that this hasn't been properly costed out and will totally bankrupt the country. One particularly demented senator is now proclaiming that Labour wants us all to be living in mud huts with candles. Never mind the fact that the governments carbon emission target for 2030, which we weren't meeting before half the continent caught fire, wasn't properly priced out. That's totally different.
The major opposition party is working on an agenda of zero net carbon emissions by 2050. Ambitious, but in terms of politics it's a long term plan and the sort of thing they're looking at doing in stages. The government, who are still trying to pretend that climate change isn't a real thing and even if it is real it totally isn't man-made and even if it is man-made so what the Rapture is coming soon and what about the coal WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE POOR COAL - ahem. The government has proceeded to start screaming that this hasn't been properly costed out and will totally bankrupt the country. One particularly demented senator is now proclaiming that Labour wants us all to be living in mud huts with candles. Never mind the fact that the governments carbon emission target for 2030, which we weren't meeting before half the continent caught fire, wasn't properly priced out. That's totally different.