Dear reader, if you can recall, we’ve been waxing bout climate change for some time in this forum, and we’re glad to say there’s some positive news on the Climate Authority. Way back in 2013, the Climate Commission was abolished by the Abbott Government. A sensible move designed to improve Australia’s credentials as a world leader in tackling cataclysmic climate change. At the same time Unesco’s climate report issued to the United Nations on the health of the Great Barrier Reef was also watered down to appease tourism and associated government agencies. Another sensible move.
A principled stand. But poor form for Fiction writers.
Regrettably, no one informed the world largest living structure of the delicate, nuanced and responsible re- wording of reports and removal of the Climate Change Commission. The reef responded by abruptly dying. Now, a shadow of its former self, it will ungraciously be completely dead within a decade. Still, the federal Government is up to the mark and most recently prosecuted a Chinese tanker for venting fuel oil in transit through the reef. Always good to find a culprit. A clear demonstration showing that when it comes to the environment, Australia leads. As world leader, our ‘Direct Action Initiative’ is pushing the envelope.
‘Direct Action as a piece of fiction rivals the work of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen’. Harry Potter author J.K Rowlings paused in a recent appearance at the Sydney Writers Festival to praise the Australian government on it imaginative use of data. Most recently our most recently elected member of the senate, Mr Malcolm Roberts, (of the seventy seven first preference votes) praised the report as ‘fact based and utterly empirical’. With this affirmation, you’d think the benchmark had been truly set.
But no, there’s more.
Today the Federal government announced that the Climate Change Authority would move to Canberra, for ‘better access and accountability’. This followed the recent issuing of the major report, giving praise to Australia’s efforts on reducing carbon, and the minor report where two commissioners repudiated the major report as fanciful. Fancy that! Sensibly, the two dissenting board members were quietly ignored, and the other board members, incidentally all who have been appointed by the coalition, are quite happy with the move to take the authority away from leftist Melboune where it might be exposed to undue influence, and relocate it to Canberra. Canberra, the world leader in imagination deficit will ensure the authority remains in safe hands.
So it’s good news for coal, who’ve increased annual production to fuel the ‘desperate and needy’ in the third world, and good news for climate .There will be new logos and letterheads, not to mention the fitting our of new offices, and car allocation for the management team. Once again proof that the P.M for innovation and ideas booming is on key.
Other nominees for the most exciting new releases in the adult fiction category failed to top the unaminous vote of the coalitions Direct Action policy, which won praise, and topped Vladimir Putins, ‘Surviving Democracy” as the best new fiction in the most promising new writer category.
The Environment and Energy Minister Mr Josh Frydenberg who is on secondment to Peabody Energy, was unavailable for comment.