remember when press gallery journos spent the election campaign saying the Morrison government has no agenda? No climate policy? That was convenient cover for the Morrison government agenda of promoting coal ahead of renewables. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jun/25/up-to-11000-renewable-energy-jobs-could-be-lost-under-morrison-government-policies

remember Turnbull, who lost his job as leader of the Liberal Party twice over climate policy, ran on a jobs n growth platform. Morrison has destroyed tens of thousands of jobs in my sector alone and is running on a jobs platform (the Liberals gave up on growth years ago).

‘existing Morrison government policies’ - which are not nothing.
The consistent construction of dangerous Morrison government climate policy settings as “no policy” is a microcosm of how the dangerous Liberal Party policy platform is presented as neutral government action.

not having a go at Guardian coverage of climate policy. Like on #Robodebt, they have been vastly ahead of the [mediocre and complacent] field.

see how systemic cuts, year on year underfunding, to (eg) the ABC, CSIRO and universities are systemic attacks on science, arts and culture? And then they announce* a rescue package*? This scrappy, piecemeal approach is about targeting public spending to political objectives.

same model as #SportsRorts and regional grants and aged care packages* and sector by sector funding for tourism, or the arts. Keep tiny orgs scrambling for tiny competitive grants, give no-tender billions to coal industry-run foundations, the AWM, and mercenaries like Paladin.

the entire arts industry “rescue package” amounts to half what Turnbull, Morrison and Frydenberg gave to the coal-industry controlled GBRF over lunch. Gave failed Liberal Party leader Brendan Nelson for some helicopter hangars. Gave numerous corporations to torture refugees.

the federal government borrows billions to service its own debt https://twitter.com/thekouk/status/1274844408010010625?s=21

a Morrison government announcement, designed to distract from its attacks on the ABC, of less than 1/32 of its borrowings this week in grants *and loans* to the arts sector, is not the messiah. The amount is a workshopped minimum, and an insult.