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Neither Morrison nor Johnson are freewheeling fantasists in the Donald Trump style. The Washington Post recorded over 30,000 false or misleading statements by Trump in his four-year term in office. By any stretch, that’s an Olympian feat of
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“In 2015 one of the most powerful jobs in the bureaucracy, that of cabinet secretary, went to a public relations executive, Matthew Stafford, who thus had access to cabinet meetings.”
― Credlin & Co.: How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself
― Credlin & Co.: How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself
“Bronwyn Bishop, the shadow minister for seniors, was appointed speaker of the House of Representatives, a well-paid but undemanding job that would gratify her love of state-supplied perks without risking her questionable judgement on a government department.”
― Credlin & Co.: How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself
― Credlin & Co.: How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself
“when 1500 scientists, including 100 Nobel Laureates, petitioned the world in 1995 that serious remedies were required to halt the destruction of the living fabric of the Earth, their warning was ignored. Had it been 1500 economists warning of a stock market crash it would have got banner headlines and emergency government action.”
― Optimism: Reflections on a Life of Action
― Optimism: Reflections on a Life of Action
“In the court of global public opinion, and in the annals of environmental history, Captain Watson will be a champion long after the last Japanese factory ship finds its resting place in the museum of selfish disregard for the living Earth upon which we all depend.”
― Optimism: Reflections on a Life of Action
― Optimism: Reflections on a Life of Action
“Dupont had a long history of analysing Australia’s position in the world. He was also a pioneer in the study of links between climate change and international security, an area that few defence experts had explored. In 2006 he asserted in an article, written with Graeme Pearman, that the security implications of climate change had been largely ignored by public policy experts, academics and journalists. ‘Climate change is fast emerging as the security issue of the 21st century,’ he wrote, ‘overshadowing terrorism and even the spread of weapons of mass destruction as the threat most likely to cause mega-death and contribute to state failure, forced population movements, food and water scarcity and the spread of infectious diseases.”
― Credlin & Co.: How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself
― Credlin & Co.: How the Abbott Government Destroyed Itself
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