Over at far-right social media hub Left Wing Bigots and Extremists exposed the punters are mad. White hot mad, in fact (emphasis on the ‘white’ there).
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If there’s one positive to be taken from Mal Brough’s second tilt at being an MP it’s this: we get to collective witness him bomb out one more time.
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Just weeks after we learned budget cuts to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) will force the loss of 110 climate researchers at the agency, the Federal Government is funding a new ‘growth centre’ for the fossil fuel industry.
Christopher Pyne, the Minister for Industry, Innovation and Science, announced this week that the government will be providing $15.4 million to the oil, gas, coal and uranium sectors.
Welcome to Turnbull’s age of innovation.
Innovation will drive stronger economic growth & a cleaner environment. Read more https://t.co/hFRUhJ0EQJ #cop21 pic.twitter.com/FJ6B1GEeLF
— Malcolm Turnbull (@TurnbullMalcolm) December 1, 2015
The Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Growth Centre will focus on “industry-led research” – that great bastion of impartial quality – in order to expand Australia’s fossil fuel industries.
Its board will be filled by fossil fuel executives, but there may also be work for the CSIRO climate scientists.
“The Growth Centre will work closely with researchers from universities, CSIRO and Cooperative Research Centres to build links with business and industry organisations,” Pyne said.
The Federal Resources Minister, Josh Frydenberg said the centre would help position Australia’s fossil fuel industries for the next wave of investment.
Barracking for a boom, Frydenberg gushed last week that “resources is to the Australian economy what the baggy green is to Australian sport. Totemic. Iconic.”
Fossil fuels, he said, are “indispensable to our national story and synonymous with our national identity”. Well, they’re clearly less dispensable than the quality climate science that the CSIRO has long produced.
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Today is a tale of two houses.
In NSW’s Parliament House, MPs have gathered for an apology. In 1978, 500 people met in Sydney’s Taylor Square in support of gay rights, a watershed moment that gave birth to the city’s now iconic Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and fuelled a political movement that helped wind-back openly discriminatory legislation in the state. The protest was peaceful and grew in strength as it progressed until police moved in with violence, shattering the demonstration. Those involved in the march were outed by the media – their names, addresses, and jobs were published. Homosexuality was criminalised by NSW law at the time.
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OPINION: Even by Fairfax’s low standards, their latest Paul Sheehan rant was gratuitously racist. And as it turns out, it was also patently false and bone jarringly stupid.
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