Not Good Enough

97 — All COP26 are bastards

Farm workers are now entitled to a minimum wage, some guy got smashed and crashed his car. Also some dudes went to Glasgow and talked about submarines or something.

 

Minimum wage news

• The Fair Work Commission has ruled that farm workers must be paid a minimum wage!
• This means that some workers are entitled to an 830% pay rise.
• Shoutout to the Australian Workers Union for bringing this complaint.
• Minister for Agriculture David Littleproud (who previously worked as an Agribusiness Banker) says he’s mostly worried about supermarket prices.

Slimeball news

• Victorian Liberal MP Tim Smith got incredibly drunk and smashed his car into a house.
• Liberal party leader Mathew Guy asked his mate to not recontest the next election, but not to resign just yet.
• Behind the scenes, Tim Smith pushed against conversion therapy within the Liberal party.
• Federal Liberal party members are urging Tim Smith to stay in politics.
• He’s said now he won’t recontest the next election.

Inaction news

• Scott Morrison went to the COP26 conference and yelled at an empty room.
• His speech was full of bullshit.
• At the 2009 Paris Conference, rich countries pledge $100 billion to developing countries to help them build resilience to climate change. None has been given.
• Angus Taylor went there to push for carbon capture.
• Australia brought a Santos-sponsored display to the climate conference.
• Morrison likened climate change to Coronavirus, saying we’ll be saved by new technologies.
• Shame the government has massively cut funding for energy research.
• Labor is selling totes about it.
• They also want to give the government “the room” to arrive at a policy in his own time.
• Simon Kofe, a minister in Tuvalu highlighted the folly of the big nations, speaking half-submerged in water.
• Madagascar is paying the price for cheap flights and high emissions.

 

96 — What‘s the go with internet legislation (feat. Justin Warren)

Evie sits down with Justin Warren for a good long chat about what's up with all the internet legislation the government is pushing.

 

Justin Warren is a board member at Electronic Frontiers Australia. You can follow him on Twitter.

Proposed legislation

• The Online Privacy Bill Exposure Draft, colloquially known as “the Online Privacy Bill”.
• Draft Restricted Access System Declaration
• Social Media (Basic Expectations and Defamation)
• Privacy Act Review Discussion Paper. We didn’t even get to this one!

Other things discussed

• How to write a policy submission.
• How Mastercard uses it’s power to control who can do things online.

Actions

• Write some submissions regarding this legislation. You can do it!
• Online Privacy Bill Exposure Draft: Submissions due 6th December.
• Draft Restricted Access System Declaration: Submissions due 23 November.
• Privacy Act Review Discussion Paper: Submissions due 10 January.
• Follow Justin and other good digital rights advocates on twitter: Lizzie O’Shea, Lucie Krahulcova, Sam Floreani.

95 — Stop Dazza!

Governments are marking up the next IPCC report with track changes. Chistian Porter has a secret vault of cash and no-one wants to look inside.

 

Climate action

• Activist Lauren McDonald calling a fossil fuel CEO a mass murderer to his face: Pretty cool!
• She was able to get onto the panel via the Stop Cambo campaign.
• Mia held up the Adani coal line for hours.

Climate inaction

• Saudi Arabia has a goal to get to net zero by 2060.
• Bridget “Rorts” McKenzie says it’ll get ugly if Scott Morrison commits to net zero.
• Leaked documents from the next phase of the IPCC report show Australia trying to massage themselves out of the report.

Big bux Porter

• In an unprecedented move, the government has blocked a recommendation to investigate Christian Porter over his blind trust.
• Porter claims he doesn’t know who put money into the blind trust used to pay for his legal campaign against the ABC.
• By comparison, class action suits are highly regulated and transparent (PDF link).
• In mid-September Porter resigned from the ministry (he remains an MP).
• … which is lucky because now he won’t be investigated for breaching ministerial standards!

Shoutouts

• Shoutout to Inner North Medical clinic — working to get vaccinations happening where people need them.
• Listen to Evie’s 3CR interview with Hana Assafiri from the Moroccan Soup Bar on their popup vaccination program.

 

94 — Darryl Kerrigan would be concerned about franking credits

News Corp say they believe in climate change now. Don't take their word for it. We also discuss whether buying billboards is effective climate activism.

 

 

News Corp are climate activists?

• News Corp are running a two-week campaign called “Mission Zero”.
• Joe Hildebrand is fronting the campaign.
• Their tabloids ran with “Green and Gold” on their front pages.
• McLean’s deep dive into News Corp’s ongoing climate denial and pushing of gas.
• The News Corp writeup of solar panels is just as bad.
• A part of the their other “Green” coverage, News Corp ran a hit piece on renewables, an exclusive with Gina Rinehart, and a puff piece on Twiggy Forrest.
• Andrew Bolt is big mad (or plays the heel at least).
• Ketan Joshi on the whole News Corp package.

Labor can’t deny

• Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy Chris Bowen gave a wild speech to launch the Climate of the Nation Report.
• Victoria Labor is also shit, voting down a Green party bill to prevent drilling for gas near the Twelve Apostles.

School struck for climate

• Carn the kids!
• The School Strike for Climate’s demands.

JokeKeeper ha ha

• A Rational Fear podcast.
• The Jokekeeper fundraiser.
• Running billboards in Times Square.
• A Rational Fear had Joe Hildebrand on to continue whitewashing News Corp.
• McLean’s analysis of the episode.

Shoutouts

• Shoutout to the AFL Players for Climate Action!

93 — And I quote

Gina Rinehart has terminal facebook brain, the nationals want to keep digging coal long after capital decides it's a bad idea, and we answer a listener question.

 

Upholding titles

• Police have recognised Traditional Owners’ rights to practise culture on the land where the Adani mine is being built.

Facebook brain

• Gina Rinehart made a totally cooked climate-denying speech to schoolchildren.
• Holding the Australian swim team hostage to wish you happy birthday.

Cooking the planet

• Nationals MP Keith Pitt has proposed that the government establish a $250 billion fund for fossil industries.
• The Business Council of Australia has released a plan to for Australia to reduce emissions. Angus Taylor hates it.
• In 2018 the Business Council called 45% emissions reductions “economy wrecking”.
• Sussan Ley just keeps on approving coal mines, neglecting her duty of care.

Actions

• Got a question? Send us an email!
• Get involved in something real!
• Don’t get burned out.

92 — Ms. Deeds

Girlbosses are doing it (high level corruption) for themselves.

 

Bishop to Lithium

• Former Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop put on a big pink frock.
• Don’t miss the bedazzled safety glasses and tiara hardhat.
• In the 1980’s Bishop worked as a lawyer defending an asbestos producer from worker compensation claims.

Big talk Rowe

• Vanity podcaster Jessica Rowe had Pauline Hanson on her show.
• Chameleonic racist and fraudster Pauline Hanson was instrumental in the destruction of the family court in Australia.
• After posting the link, Rowe made a notes app statement.
• Tracy Spicer’s #metoo activism organisation collapsed under mismanagement and inexperience.
• Bez on wasting time educating folk playing dumb.

F in the chat for Gladys

• ICAC is investigating Gladys Berejeklian over her relationship with former MP Daryl Macguire.
• Gladys on the FT Power Issue.
• Daryl Macguire destroyed his iPad with a tractor.
• Gladys is now dating her ICAC lawyer??
• She’s also just outright admitted to pork barrelling.
• Malcolm Turnbull’s grandson says Gladyskanda forever.
• The media are so sad that Gladys is gone. The Australian calls ICAC a “lynch mob”, the Daily Mail says she was “knifed by unelected lawyers”.
• In 2020, the media defended Gladys as unlucky in love.
• NSW has not seen a Premier serve a full term since 2003.
• Even left-leaning media like Crikey can’t help themselves: “Gladys Berejiklian — a glittering career undone by two disastrous misjudgments”.
• Progressives just see Gladys as being pushed off the glass cliff.

Actions

• Sign the petition to get gender affirming surgery into Medicare.

91 — Lisa vs. Lockdown (feat. Lisa Dib)

Hi-vis rallies: cool, cooked or complicated? Let's find out together.

 

Jeffrey Combs appreciation

• Watch Jeffrey Combs in the Frighteners.

Treat denial

• Delivery workers at StarTrack and FedEx have struck for safer conditions.
• Workers from Cadbury and Accolade Wines have also struck for better pay.

Hi-vis rallies

• Massive rallies in Melbourne started as legitimate CMFEU worker complaints.
• …but were infiltrated by right-wing agitators.
• And cheered on by “citizen journalists”.
• CMFEU boss John Setka has been accused of domestic violence.
• I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People.
• Conservatism is fundamentally aligned with anti-vax sentiment.
• Tuesday saw protesters going on a long walk around Melbourne, and up the Westgate Bridge.
• This video of the Australian Army band playing Rage Against the Machine is psychic damage.
• On Wednesday, chaos and cookers were in control.
• Interesting side note: the Shrine of Remembrance was built under a work-for-the-dole program.
• The rest of the week featured cop violence, black-bagging and intimidation.
• At the 2019 IMARC protests, police a rode horse through a crowd, crushing a protestor’s legs.

Shoutouts

• Shoutout to the cool teens who are running one of the best COVID stats sites on Twitter. Support them on Patreon.
• Follow Lisa on Twitter!
• Listen to the Reanimates podcast for a nice time. Listen to Lang on Reanimates.

90 — AUKUS malorkus

We have a lot to say about submarines. Also, shutting down public transport to stop a protest: Sensible tactic to calm things down or bad idea that'll just make things worse? If only I were writing this several days in the future and could see what would happen on Monday and Tuesday.

 

Three large sons

• Australia has entered a new military pact with the US & UK to build a couple of new submarines. It’s pronounced “Orcus”.
• We wasted billions of dollars on the Collins class Submarines.
• No one remembers Scott Morrison’s name.
• Scott Morrison called French President Macron the night before the contract was announced. They’re pissed now.
• France is a major provider of military contracts in Australia.
• Nationals MP Matt Canavan is already trying to pivot this into a push for nuclear power.
• The move has also pissed off Indonesia, who canceled a planned visit between President Widodo and Scott Morrison.
• Australia’s very clever defense policy.
• Greens leader Adam Bandt called the submarines “floating Chernobyls”.
• Correction: Lang states that Matt Damon was in Pearl Harbor. This is a common mistake; he was thinking of Jon Voight.

Top of the cops

• Police shut down Melbourne’s public transport to put a damper on anti-lockdown protests.
• The protests still happened.
• Construction workers also protested the shutting down of tea rooms.
• The University sector has lost 40,000 jobs since the pandemic started.

Shoutouts

• Shoutouts to Joel Fitzgibbon, who is not recontesting the next election in Hunter, but has been highly effective at saying the quiet part loud.

 

89 — Do they know it‘s Cringemas? (feat. Lyndal Rowlands)

We're joined by climate journalist Lyndal Rowlands to discuss New Corp's two-week admission that climate change exists. Then we dig into reality show The Activist, and the weird people behind it.

 

Toot toot! Get on the Drilled Bus!

• The Drilled Podcast.
• Not Good Enough Episode 77: Care of Duty: Modern Lawfare

Toot toot! Get on the Vaccine Bus!

• Jabba the Bus is coming for you.
• What works to Increase Vaccine Uptake (pdf link)

Zero day

• News Corp have said they’ll “champion net zero emissions” (for two weeks).
• This follows a senate inquiry into the Sky News Covid falsities that led to their channel being suspended from Youtube.
• News Corp is responsible for some of the worst climate misinfo in the world.
• The package will be led by Joe Hildebrand.
• But don’t worry, regular commentators like Andrew Bolt won’t be “muzzled”.
• Net zero isn’t the same as real zero.
• Greta Thunberg calls for real zero.
• Santos is just a friend to coffee shops.

Activism, but make it very dumb

• In reality show The Activist, Usher and Nick Jonas’s wife will judge contestants on how good they make solving the world’s problems sound.
• The show is produced in partnership with advocacy group Global Citizen, which was founded by Hugh Evans, the “Melbourne man with A-listers on speed dial”.
• Global Citizen specializes in running benefit concerts, to dubious effect.
• Australia is finally supporting the TRIPs waiver for COVID vaccines.
• The Gates foundation has long opposed any kind of weakening of intellectual property restrictions for vaccines.

Actions

• Listen to Drilled.
• If you’re in the Future: Listen to Damages!
• Follow Lyndal on Twitter!

8* — The Fifth Element is coal

The LNP want to give you a school chaplain to sooth your worries about climate change, and we discuss whether you can ever get away with a "BUT" after "death is horrible".

 

Banning Nazi stuff

• Victoria is banning swastikas and other Nazi symbols.
• IPA alumni Tim Wilson became Human Rights Commissioner, and then helped them out.

Preaching to the choir

• Worried about climate change? It’s okay, two Liberal Ministers are proposing more school chaplains to help!.
• Luke Howard is all about school chaplains. He pushed for more funding in 2018 too.
• As housing minister he said he wanted to put a “positive spin” on homelessness.
• Maybe if you’re feeling bad, you can do some mindfulness with the Labor Party coloring book.
• Barnaby Joyce doesn’t want to denounce satan? Also he doesn’t think climate change is real.

Covid zone

• “Death is horrible, BUT”
• “There’ll be funerals, BUT you’ll be able to go to them!”
• Hospital systems are critically overloaded in Victoria in NSW.
• Bunnings is calling it, and reopening their stores.