108 — Manchoofian Candidate

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.

Good news!

• 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.

Demanding forgiveness

• 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”.

Secretly working for China

• 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.

Grace Tame is cool

• 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.

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