World’s Worst Treasurer [#geekgirl]
“Abbott shuts down Climate Commission” [#wtf] [#geekgirl]
[Via The Canberra Times] “The Abbott government has abolished the Climate Commission, which had been established to provide public information on the impacts and potential solutions to global warming. It is understood Environment Minister Greg Hunt rang chief climate commissioner Tim Flannery at 10am on Thursday to tell him the body had been shut down…The Australian Financial Review has reported that Mr Hunt has also ordered the closure of another key body in Australia’s climate change policy, the Climate Change Authority. The authority was created to advise the government on emissions reduction targets and caps and to detail international efforts to combat climate change. The authority was due to release a draft of a report on targets and caps next month.”
“Tony Abbott’s first cabinet is the first in two decades to only include one woman…” [#geekgirl]
Tony Abbott’s first cabinet is the first in two decades to only include one woman: pic.twitter.com/98UW1mAMD6
— Lee Rhiannon (@leerhiannon) September 16, 2013
An Open Letter From the Guy who did that Sweary Website
“We need to ignore the social convention that it is taboo to challenge other people’s ideas, or that questioning things is adversarial and rude. We need to be vulnerable enough to put our thoughts out there and engage with people honestly. We need to call out things we believe to be wrong. We need to stand up for what we believe to be right.
These next three years are going to be difficult for people on the progressive side of politics in Australia, but I implore you to not descend into personal attacks and hate. This may seem somewhat hypocritical for me to say in light of my sweary rant, but what I’m saying is that we should continue to have sweary rants about the government and politics, but when we’re talking to actual people, we need to convince them, not turn them off. We need to connect with them and persuade them that a progressive Australia is better than a conservative one. We need to make them believe that it would be fucking idiotic to vote for the LNP next time around.
I believe that the truth is on our side, but we need to have the courage to stand up for it.
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