98 — Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies

Heroes keep stopping coal trains, Scott Morrison has never told a lie and Australia wins at Climate Golf.

Hero watch

• Direct action works. Blockade Australia are repeatedly shutting down train lines from coal mines.
• Blockade Australia are planning a massive disruption in Sydney on June 27th.
• Every Time I Die — People Verses

Never lying

• Scott Morrison says he has never told a lie in public.
• This follows him backtracking on some of his electric vehicles policies.
• We’re in a “post-reality-based community” world.
• Pauline Hanson’s campaign released a piece of political propaganda. Not gonna link to it.

Climate Change Performance

• Australia scored a big fat zero in Greenhouse Gas Per Capita in the The Climate Change Performance Index.
• Labor’s Chris Bowen framed this as “Australia’s biggest economic opportunity”.
• Ex-Wallabies captain David Pocock compared fossil fuel advertising to cigarette sponsorship.
• The AFLW league is heavily sponsored by BHP.
• The Government’s “Plan” for getting to Net Zero is extremely bad. For one thing it doesn’t even get to zero.
• It’s “slow, lazy and shockingly irresponsible”.
• Meanwhile, Tuvalu is investigating legal ways they can maintain their maritime territories if the island is submerged.

Shoutouts

• Solidarity with staff from Better Read Than Dead are back on strike after management reneged on their promises for a new deal.
• Shoutout to the Toll workers who struck in seven warehouses for better pay. They won!
• On the 20th of November, the Campaign Against Racism and Fascism are counterprotesting the antivax nutjobs.