Antinuclear

so far as I know, only Crikey’s Bernard Keane has called George Brandis out on his alarmism.

ISIL knows the power of terror, however. As the Prime Minister puts it, “It is a serious situation when all you need to do to carry out a terrorist attack is to have a knife, an iPhone and a victim”.

But what last week showed us was that, with a bit of help from your enemies, you can terrify a supposedly confident and prosperous nation of twenty-three million people by making one call on an old-fashioned telephone……

Funding for ASIO and ASIS up; the Department of Climate change abolished, and funding for the CSIRO’s scientists cut. More and more laws to stop terrorists; fewer and fewer measures to limit greenhouse gas emissions. And of course, no carbon price.

The threat of terrorism by followers of ISIL, and the threat posed by climate change, are both real.  But only one of them is potentially existential.  If we expect government to keep not just us, but our children and grandchildren safe, this one will let us down. Count on it. http://www.smh.com.au/comment/islamic-state-is-not-an-existential-threat-to-us-20140923-10kolr.html#ixzz3EGrMBW9X