The ScoMo Government

[IFocus]

Heroic PM Receives Standing Ovation From Thankful Cobargo Residents, Says Murdoch Newspapers

https://www.betootaadvocate.com/bre...ul-cobargo-residents-says-murdoch-newspapers/

 

[moXJO]

Dutton Calls For Turnback Of Boat Spotted Off Coast Of Mallacoota

https://www.theshovel.com.au/2020/0...back-of-boat-spotted-off-coast-of-mallacoota/

Thats a great headline

 

[IFocus]

Thats a great headline

Yeah it appealed to my sense of humour to.

 

[IFocus]

 

[qldfrog]

Wasn't some of our virtuous left saying we should not politicise the fire.follow Albanese lead, he is at least half decent on that matter

 

[qldfrog]

I believe that each brigade has a log of who is where for safety reasons, so perhaps we use those as a basis to pay each fire fighter after X number of hours per year.

The standard week is 38 hours so after a volunteer has done 38 hours in a year they get paid $25 per hour when actually fighting a fire.

I would not count training and maintenance towards the 38 hours as they are elective hours and this then allows the volunteer to still feel like they are giving back to the community as they do now

Macca, training is not elective, join the local rfb and see how long and how funny this is...it is mandatory
The only plus is that this can be planned and so you do not have to take time off your work to attend
Just a note

 

[IFocus]

Worth a read

Quite a chilling view from an outsider

NYT

Australia Is Committing Climate Suicide
As record fires rage, the country’s leaders seem intent on sending it to its doom.

"BRUNY ISLAND, Australia — Australia today is ground zero for the climate catastrophe. Its glorious Great Barrier Reef is dying, its world-heritage rain forests are burning, its giant kelp forests have largely vanished, numerous towns have run out of water or are about to, and now the vast continent is burning on a scale never before seen."

" The bookstore in the fire-ravaged village of Cobargo, New South Wales, has a new sign outside: “Post-Apocalyptic Fiction has been moved to Current Affairs.”

And yet, incredibly, the response of Australia’s leaders to this unprecedented national crisis has been not to defend their country but to defend the coal industry, a big donor to both major parties — as if they were willing the country to its doom. While the fires were exploding in mid-December, the leader of the opposition Labor Party went on a tour of coal mining communities expressing his unequivocal support for coal exports. The prime minister, the conservative Scott Morrison, went on vacation to Hawaii."

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/opinion/australia-fires-climate-chang...

 

[IFocus]

Oh man a jingle ad for the Liberals in the middle of a extreme national crisis read the comments for Morrison's Insta.



Everyone are lining up to stick the boots in

 

[sptrawler]

I think the outcome from all this will be interesting.

 

[IFocus]

Wasn't some of our virtuous left saying we should not politicise the fire.follow Albanese lead, he is at least half decent on that matter

Given whats happening the left have largely been silent ADF apparently furious and hard right people screaming, note not a cabinet minister to be seen other than defence.

Satire rags having a ball so much material they must think all their Xmas's have come at once.

Like the fires totally unprecedented in Australian political history.

 

[IFocus]

Hang on heres Rudd haha

 

[sptrawler]

Given whats happening the left have largely been silent ADF apparently furious and hard right people screaming, note not a cabinet minister to be seen other than defence.

Satire rags having a ball so much material they must think all their Xmas's have come at once.

Like the fires totally unprecedented in Australian political history.

It is one of those no win situations, the last thing anyone with any sense wants to do is say something, no one can sort it and only one party has to wear it.
Labour for once is doing exactly the right thing and saying F#@$ all, which is most unusual and a breath of fresh air.IMO
If Albo says anything he will make himself a target, let Scomo cop the heat, he is wearing the sherrif badge.
Albo is showing some maturity, which Labour has lacked for a long time. Thank god Kev isnt the Labour leader ATM.
Just my opinion.

 

[IFocus]

Yikes

 

[IFocus]

Then this

https://www.environment.gov.au/syst...es/20100630-climate-fire-biodiversity-pdf.pdf

Check this passage from the Garnaut Climate Change Review:

 

[qldfrog]

We all know that if the greens had voted the carbon tax, we would be under pouring icy rain....
You do realise that there is most probability we will have flooding within 6 years all around us too?
What does this bring in?
Did you celebrate and crack champagne at 9/11, or with the NZ earthquake as it happened under a right government?
Do you genuinely, i mean genuinely believe that with shorten in charge anything , any extra live or house would have been saved?
Actually feeling quite disgusted, but not surprised. A culture of hate and envy

 

[sptrawler]

Dont worry frog, this will be the making, or the undoing of Scomo, how he handles this will dictate his future.
The left may yet find it all backfires in their face, the media seem to be toning it down a bit, maybe they have thought it through, who knows.

 

[SirRumpole]

Dont worry frog, this will be the making, or the undoing of Scomo, how he handles this will dictate his future.
The left may yet find it all backfires in their face, the media seem to be toning it down a bit, maybe they have thought it through, who knows.

He's already stuffed up by waiting so long and not listening to the experts who have been saying for years that this sort of thing was coming.

 

[IFocus]

Nothing to do with climate, left, right or media.

Why not address the cluster this fool is making of himself or do you fully support his actions (zero) and behaviour?

 

[sptrawler]

He's already stuffed up by waiting so long and not listening to the experts who have been saying for years that this sort of thing was coming.

I dont think so, how it all unfolds will very much decide his fate, but ATM the hounds are baying and frothing at the mouth, but as has been proven in the past the hounds sometimes are found to be lacking.
As I said earlier, Albo seems to be showing the most sense ATM IMO.

 

[moXJO]

Nothing to do with climate, left, right or media.

Why not address the cluster this fool is making of himself or do you fully support his actions (zero) and behaviour?

One of the greatest foot in mouth moments I've ever seen. When you have Rudd scoring points off you, you know you really messed up.