How Australia’s authorities is filibustering the local weather emergency

On the subject of international warming, the Australian media has, as soon as once more, fallen into the function of Charlie Brown to Scott Morrison’s Lucy at soccer apply. You recognize the favored gag: “Belief me,” says Lucy, earlier than pulling the ball away on the final second.

This time, Morrison’s Lucy schtick got here along with his tippy-toes sideways shuffle of the Paris-mandated zero web emissions purpose from “a while this century” to “ideally by 2050” — a U-turn of historic proportions apparently, proper up till all that means was pulled away within the face of backbench resistance.

Inside per week, the second was misplaced as the federal government leapt on the alternative to huff over nationwide sovereignty in response to threats of carbon tariffs on Australian exports. (Australia is “lifeless towards” them, in accordance with Power Minister Angus Taylor, as if that issues to the world. Nicely performed, Angus.)