From the greatest skeptic of them all, Andrew Bolt:
We sceptics can’t go on like this. These bushfires demand we all stop pretending and face the facts.
And, yes, it starts with me.
So I admit: the planet has warmed.
I admit: this warming could affect a lot of people.
I admit: man’s emissions probably play some role.
I admit: the Liberals’ response has been hopeless and MUST change.
Enough. How can Prime Minister Scott Morrison possibly agree that global warming is a menace — giving us bad things like a “longer, hotter, dryer, summer season” — yet still promise to do less than Labor to save us?
That’s simply not credible when people are freaking about a climate emergency that some think will wipe us out.
Good job. Welcome aboard. Shame about the Nats, at The Australian:
An LNP maverick — elected by rebel Coalition and Labor MPs to the role of Deputy Speaker in a damaging parliamentary defeat for Scott Morrison — has attacked embattled Nationals leader Michael McCormack for holding a party meeting in Victoria last year that coincided with the Melbourne Cup.
Following a fiery Nationals partyroom meeting on Monday where Mr McCormack was labelled a “liar”, the party leader was further humiliated after Queenslander Llew O’Brien beat his pick, Damian Drum, a loyal ally, in a parliamentary vote for the role of Deputy Speaker.
In an interview with The Australian, former police officer Mr O’Brien slammed the Nationals culture, revealing that Mr McCormack convened a partyroom meeting in regional Victoria in 2019 to coincide with the Melbourne spring carnival.
And more:
There was open rebellion on the floor of Parliament today, with up to five Coalition MPs voting against their own government’s nomination for a key position – in favour on maverick Llew O’Brien.
The shock result follows the Wide Bay MP quitting the Nationals party room, while remaining with the LNP, after the failed spill against Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack.
Labor nominated Mr O’Brien for deputy speaker, who shocked his colleagues by accepting the nod, against the Coalition’s pick Damian Drum.
This is QLD coal putsch led by honorary QLDer Barnaby Joyce. It is all about competing with One Nation and Clive Palmer and damn the lifeboats.
It is political suicide, of course, as Andrew Bolt and the swing in the Murdoch press attests.
Given ON is the threat, why didn’t they just cut immigration instead?
