Reflections on Australian nuclear and climate news

All very quiet on the nuclear/uranium front – except for renewed media efforts by the South Australian nuclear promotion nest, and nuclear enthusiasts from overseas to push the ever more wobbly nuclear barrow.

So I give myself license to wander off the point (?perhaps), in considering Queensland’s new and draconian anti-bikie laws. Well, we’re all supposed to hate bikies, aren’t we? So that’s OK? Similar laws might come in other States. This is how erosion of civil liberties proceeds – as Queenslanders should well know – those who remember the Joh Bjelke Petersen era.

Not so quiet on the climate front. In the face of extreme weather in Australia, and overseas, the Australian government is more firmly than ever wedded to serving its masters – fossil fuel corporations. Tony Abbott hides behind the extraordinary climate denialist statements of his top business advisor, Maurice Newman.