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      What does a Jordan Peterson conference say about the future of climate change? Apparently we’re headed towards ‘human flourishing’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Wednesday, 8 November - 23:00

    Attendees of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship were treated to a grab-bag of cherrypicked talking points that ignored the risks from climate change

    Rightwing figures from around the world descended on London last week for the inaugural conference of the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) – a sort of quasi- thinktank fronted by controversial Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson.

    Peterson pleaded with the audience at London’s O2 Arena to “tilt the world towards heaven and away from hell”, which, for many of the event’s main speakers, definitely did not mean worrying much at all about the climate crisis.

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      Australie: Anthony Albanese, futur Premier ministre et miraculé

      news.movim.eu / HuffingtonPost · Saturday, 21 May, 2022 - 15:15 · 4 minutes

    Après pratiquement une décennie sans gouvernement travailliste en Australie, Anthony Albanese, Italo-Australien ayant survécu à un terrible accident de voiture, a mené le Après pratiquement une décennie sans gouvernement travailliste en Australie, Anthony Albanese, Italo-Australien ayant survécu à un terrible accident de voiture, a mené le "Labour" à la victoire face au sortant Scott Morrison.

    AUSTRALIE - Cela faisait pratiquement dix ans que les libéraux étaient au pouvoir en Australie, notamment avec Scott Morrison , l’homme de l’affaire des sous-marins décommandés à la France . Mais ce samedi 21 mai, c’est bel et bien le camp travailliste qui l’a emporté lors des élections législatives, portant au pouvoir un miraculé: Anthony Albanese.

    Le prochain Premier ministre de l’Australie est en effet un homme du peuple et un dirigeant politique qui a survécu à un accident de la route en plus d’avoir su redresser le Parti travailliste jusqu’à le mener à une victoire sur le fil. “J’ai pensé que c’était la fin”, a récemment raconté Anthony Albanese en décrivant son hospitalisation dans un état critique l’an dernier, après une collision entre sa voiture et un véhicule tout-terrain conduit par un adolescent.

    À l’époque, les travaillistes étaient à la traîne dans les sondages, loin derrière les conservateurs du Premier ministre Scott Morrison. Mais celui qui est surnommé “Albo” par ses partisans a expliqué qu’avoir frôlé la mort lui a donné l’énergie nécessaire pour tout changer.

    Des origines modestes et éduqué par une mère seule

    À 59 ans, il peut aujourd’hui se vanter d’un rétablissement sur tous les fronts. Il a retrouvé la santé, consolidé son autorité à la tête de son parti, et perdu 18 kilos. Ses costumes sont devenus plus chics, et il a troqué ses lunettes métalliques de bouquiniste pour des montures noires à la “Mad Men”.

    Surtout, il ramène au pouvoir les travaillistes après une course en tête depuis plus d’un an dans les sondages, grâce à des attaques ciblées contre la gestion gouvernementale de la pandémie de Covid et des incendies catastrophiques pendant l’été austral 2020.

    L’apogée d’un long parcours politique. Car avant cela, Anthony Albanese avait été élu au parlement pour la première fois en 1996. À l’époque, il avait dédié son premier discours à sa mère, Maryanne Ellery, qui l’avait élevé seule dans un logement social de Sydney “dans des circonstances économiques très difficiles”.

    Militant travailliste depuis le lycée, premier membre de sa famille à étudier à l’université, il affirme que ses origines ouvrières ont façonné sa vision du monde. “Cela en dit long sur ce pays”, a-t-il déclaré en votant samedi, la voix fendue par l’émotion, “que quelqu’un avec mes origines puisse se tenir devant vous aujourd’hui, en espérant être élu Premier ministre de ce pays”.

    Retrouvailles avec un père absent

    Anthony Albanese a raconté que sa mère, catholique, avait décidé de lui donner le nom de son père, même s’ils ne s’étaient jamais mariés et n’avaient jamais vécu ensemble. “J’ai été élevé en croyant qu’il était mort”, a-t-il expliqué. “Cela en dit long sur la pression qui était exercée sur les femmes”.

    Après la naissance en 2000 de son fils unique, Nathan, “Albo” s’était lancé à la recherche de son propre père, Carlo Albanese, avec une vieille photographie pour seul indice. Il l’avait finalement retrouvé dans sa ville d’origine, Barletta, en Italie, et s’était réconcilié avec lui avant sa mort en 2014. “La dernière conversation que nous avons eue, c’était pour se dire qu’on était contents de s’être retrouvés”, a-t-il confié.

    Anthony Albanese sera d’ailleurs le premier chef du gouvernement australien à porter un nom de famille autre qu’anglo-saxon ou celtique.

    Quant à son parcours politique, après avoir gravi les rangs du Parti travailliste, “Albo” était devenu ministre des Transports en 2007 lors de l’arrivée au pouvoir de Kevin Rudd, conservant ce portefeuille sous la Première ministre suivante, Julia Gillard. Il était finalement devenu leader de l’opposition après la déroute des travaillistes aux élections de 2019.

    Quid de son programme en matière d’écologie?

    Dans l’impossibilité de parcourir le pays pendant la pandémie, Anthony Albanese a néanmoins réussi à se faire connaître des électeurs. Pendant sa campagne, il a séché devant des journalistes qui l’avaient piégé en lui demandant quel était le taux de chômage en Australie et le taux directeur de la banque centrale. Mais il a relativisé ce faux pas. “Tout le monde se trompe dans la vie. La question est de savoir si l’on peut en tirer les leçons. Ce gouvernement ne cesse de répéter les mêmes erreurs”, avait-il dit.

    Il a promis de mettre en place un puissant organisme anticorruption, d’augmenter le salaire minimum au gré de l’inflation et de réduire de 43% les émissions de gaz à effet de serre d’ici 2030. Dans son discours de victoire, il a aussi promis de transformer l’Australie en “super-puissance” des énergies renouvelables.

    Il s’est, jusqu’à présent, abstenu de dire s’il comptait renoncer au charbon ou interdire l’ouverture de nouvelles mines, un secteur dont dépend encore lourdement l’économie du pays.

    À voir également sur le HuffPost : Réchauffement climatique: aux pôles, l’autre catastrophe qui passe inaperçue

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      Australie: Le Drian ironise sur la défaite du Premier ministre de l'affaire des sous-marins

      news.movim.eu / HuffingtonPost · Saturday, 21 May, 2022 - 14:39 · 3 minutes

    Lors de la passation de pouvoir avec sa successeure Catherine Colonna, Jean-Yves Le Drian n'a pas retenu ses coups à l'égard de Scott Morrisson, Premier ministre australien battu ce samedi 21 mai aux législatives. Lors de la passation de pouvoir avec sa successeure Catherine Colonna, Jean-Yves Le Drian n'a pas retenu ses coups à l'égard de Scott Morrisson, Premier ministre australien battu ce samedi 21 mai aux législatives.

    AUSTRALIE - Le Premier ministre conservateur Scott Morrison a été chassé du pouvoir lors des législatives, ce samedi 21 mai en Australie , dont les résultats ont traduit un rejet cinglant des électeurs à l’égard de son inaction contre le changement climatique.

    Selon des projections publiées par la chaîne ABC après dépouillement de la moitié des suffrages, le Parti travailliste d’Anthony Albanese emporte le plus grand nombre de députés à la Chambre des représentants. Ce dernier a proclamé sa victoire et promis de transformer l’Australie en “super-puissance” des énergies renouvelables.

    Jean-Yves Le Drian règle ses comptes

    “Le peuple australien a voté pour le changement”, s’est félicité le nouveau Premier ministre dans son discours de victoire. De quoi satisfaire le désormais ex-ministre des Affaires étrangères françaises, qui procédait ce samedi à la passation de pouvoirs avec la nouvelle ministre Catherine Colonna . “La défaite du Premier ministre Morrison me convient très bien”, a ironisé Jean-Yves Le Drian , très blagueur lors de cette dernière prise de parole après 10 ans de service au gouvernement, à la Défense puis au Quai d’Orsay.

    “Les actes posés à l’égard de la France, au moment où ils ont été posés, étaient d’une brutalité, d’un cynisme et je serais même tenté de dire d’une incompétence notoire, et ça me fait plaisir de vous le dire ce soir”, a-t-il ajouté devant l’assemblée présente au ministère des Affaires étrangères.

    “J espère que nous pourrons renouer avec Australie un dialogue franc et constructif dans l’avenir”. Une référence à peine voilée au “contrat du siècle” impliquant les sous-marins commandés par l’Australie et finalement annulé en fin d’année dernière. Une situation qui avait alors provoqué une crise diplomatique majeure entre Paris et Canberra.

    Les candidats verts publicités

    En Australie, quelque 17,2 millions d’électeurs étaient appelés à choisir les 151 sièges de la Chambre des représentants pour un mandat de trois ans. Quarante des 76 sièges du Sénat étaient également renouvelés pour six ans. Après trois années marquées par des catastrophes naturelles majeures et par la pandémie, les Australiens ont plébiscité un nombre inhabituel de “petits” candidats pro-environnement qui pourraient détenir les clés du pouvoir.

    Le Parti vert et les candidats indépendants surnommés “teals” (les “sarcelles”) - pour la plupart des femmes hautement qualifiées prônant la défense de l’environnement, l’égalité des sexes et la lutte contre la corruption - étaient en passe de conquérir une série de circonscriptions urbaines traditionnellement dévolues aux conservateurs. Après cette victoire, Anthony Albanese pourrait maintenant, pour gouverner, devoir conclure des accords avec ces candidats.

    Il a en tout cas reçu les félicitations de son collègue britannique Boris Johnson: “Félicitations à Anthony Albanese pour votre élection au poste de Premier ministre d’Australie”, a déclaré le dirigeant conservateur britannique dans un communiqué. Le Premier ministre britannique s’est dit “impatient de travailler avec le Premier ministre Albanese dans les semaines, les mois et les années à venir alors que, ensemble, nous relevons des défis communs et démontrons l’importance de nos valeurs communes”.

    À voir également sur Le HuffPost: Parly copieusement huée au Sénat en s’expliquant sur la crise des sous-marins

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      Dennis Atkins: Scott Morrison will leave a legacy of pork-barrelling without consequence

      pubsub.dcentralisedmedia.com / TheNewDaily · Friday, 12 February, 2021 - 19:00 · 5 minutes

    A perfectly formed example of just how corrupted our public administration has become occurred on Thursday near the bridge crossing the Shoalhaven River in Nowra, two and a half hours south of Sydney

    Foreign Minister Marise Payne was there to inspect bridgework across the river in the middle of town – a $342 million New South Wales and Commonwealth infrastructure project promised prior to the 2019 election.

    Labor won the seat of Gilmore but the Liberals, with a keen eye on the next election, was flying the party flag, cheering on delivery of a promise and sowing seeds for a possible new local MP.

    Marise Payne pulled out of an event spruiking a $342 million taxpayer-funded project after local Labor MP Fiona Phillips turned up.

    Senator Payne didn’t go ahead with her planned media event , put off by the arrival of Labor MP Fiona Phillips who assumed the elected local member should be present at a big publicly funded event on her patch.
    Phillips watched Liberal senator Jim Molan speak – before Payne left without uttering a word – but was told she couldn’t take part in the announcement as it was “a Liberal event”.

    The promise for funds to upgrade the Nowra bridge was central to Liberal attempts at wrestling the Labor seat back to the Coalition fold, with prime ministerial favourite candidate Nyunggai Warren Mundine shoe-horned in against the wishes of Liberal rank and file.

    It failed – but Morrison never admits defeat, and he has Gilmore on his target-seat list for this year’s election.

    As election time rolls around – September and October are months most mentioned – it will be interesting to see whether Morrison and his ministers take their foot off the opening gear for the pork barrel sluice gate.

    Will they chance another round of sports rorts ? Will more safe streets and communities pledges be made? Will women’s sport be singled out for extra bags of funds, wanted or unwanted? What about some new park and ride facilities for train stations?

    Being a wealthy private school will not disqualify anyone from sporting sheds or rowing club kit – every player can win a prize if you’re in the right marginal seat with the right number of appropriately coloured ticks on a ministerial spreadsheet.

    The Nowra bridge is spare change in the billions spent on grants schemes that festooned the last federal election campaign, but it’s a political carbuncle that oozes the putrid pus of corrupt process.

    Sure, the bridge upgrade is needed and will be welcomed. However, it’s only being done for political reasons. If it was in the safe seat of Riverina, motorists would have to suck it up as they bounced into a pothole here and there.

    The failures and faults of Donald Trump’s administration were measured in many ways, none more compelling than the constantly updated Fact Checker at The Washington Post .

    Scott Morrison has a lot in common with Donald Trump. Photo: Getty

    By the time Trump left office, the Post had tallied 30,537 lies, falsehoods and misleading claims.

    If Trump’s corruption of public life is measured in lies, Morrison’s should be counted in rorted and maladministered funding schemes – with a slew of outright dodgy, tender-free deals sprinkled on for pungency.

    The latest issue of The Monthly had just hit newsstands and websites with an exhaustive look at government scandals by editor Nick Felk when the ABC’s 7.30 added to the already long and winding hall of shame.

    Former deputy Nationals leader Bridget McKenzie’s election-ready spread sheet of grants aimed at marginals tops most people’s list but the stacking of government bodies like the Administrative Appeals Tribunal – where almost 100 Liberal mates including former MPs, candidates and staffers have been salted over the past seven years – should not be overlooked.

    Stunningly, McKenzie still claims she did nothing wrong, repeating her sainted self-assessment at a Senate hearing on Friday and declaring she was proud of the program. During the hearing, McKenzie sought to have the word “rort” struck from the record. She failed.

    Bridget McKenzie lost her ministerial job over the #sportsrorts scandal, but insists she’s “proud” of the program.

    Now Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton has been exposed as having intervened to shift money around with plenty of spending redirected to seats the government wanted to win or was keen to defend.

    Dutton calls criticism of his obvious distortion of the granting of funds as “absurd” because he was just spreading the cash around in a scheme that was clearly oversubscribed.

    When he was asked about the Dutton community-safety money tree, Morrison blamed those asking questions: “It’s just the Labor Party throwing mud, it’s what they do”.

    Morrison insists he’s not aware of “any breaches of any rules or regulations in relation to the administration of that program”.

    Scott Morrison has dismissed questions over Peter Dutton’s allocation of funds. Photo: AAP

    This is a cover-all cover-up that can be distilled down to a get out of jail free card reading: “We set the rules, you don’t know what they are but trust me I know these rules and no rules have been breached because we set the rules and they are being observed. The rules have been set so that we can do what we need to do to stay within the rules”

    There are myriad examples of societal changes which sped up during the last 12 months of SARS-CoV-2, whether it’s working from home or shopping online.

    One trend that has become more prevalent is the complete absence of consequence for poor public behaviour and administration aka corruption and cronyism. Now more than ever we need consequences, we deserve consequences. The insouciant, lackadaisical attitude of leaders like Scott Morrison is a disgrace.

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      Paul Bongiorno: Exhaust smoke and mirrors can’t hide the Morrison government’s energy failings

      pubsub.dcentralisedmedia.com / TheNewDaily · Monday, 8 February, 2021 - 11:00 · 3 minutes

    It seems Energy Minister Angus Taylor can’t help himself when it comes to using fake numbers to justify not taking action to curb Australia’s emissions at the expense of fossil fuels.

    Though he is formerly dubbed as “Minister For Emissions Reduction” his latest effort unveiling his agenda for a future fuels strategy shows it actually increases transport emissions by 6 per cent over the decade to 2030.

    The minister goes to extraordinary lengths to claim that hybrid vehicles will emit less pollution than 100 per cent electric ones.

    He does this according to analysis by Dr Jake Whitehead, a transport economist and United Nations lead author for its International Panel On Climate Change, by ignoring the emissions of extracting, shipping and refining imported fuel so that his figures have “likely underestimated pollution” for petrol/diesel vehicles by 20 per cent.

    Mr Taylor, you may remember, embarrassed himself and the government by using fake travel costs to attack Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore after she had the temerity to call out the Morrison government for being climate laggards.

    Weeks out from the last election he used a fake image on Twitter to show a Nissan Leaf electric vehicle being charged by a petrol driven generator on a weekend camping trip.

    This puerile demonisation of electric vehicles is of a piece with the Morrison government’s near complete capitulation to fossil fuel interests at an increasingly greater cost to Australia’s national interest.

    On Monday Prime Minister Scott Morrison proclaimed that his government, through the Joint Strike Fighter initiative, was “delivering sovereign capabilities to keep Australia safe”.

    Neither he nor his minister are doing the same when it comes to fuel security, a situation lamented by one of Australia’s most distinguished soldiers Major General, now senator Jim Molan.

    Australia holds just 28 days worth of fuel – well below the international safety standard of 90 days to meet any crisis, last year Mr Taylor did a $94 million deal to buy crude oil from the American stockpile.

    There are, however, major import time lag and refining issues with the arrangement, made worse by a blinkered vision that fails to see that a rapid transition to electric vehicles – cars, trucks, trams and trains – would go a long way to address this strategic vulnerability.

    Renewable energy is, after all, Australian made.

    Mr Morrison has a preference he says “for net zero emission by 2050”, but he said last week at the National Press Club, “When I can tell you how we get there, that’s when I’ll tell you when we’re going to get there”.

    The Prime Minister also claims he will do it by “technology and not taxation”; a proposition Malcolm Turnbull scoffed at when Tony Abbott, after successfully demolishing “Labor’s carbon tax”, introduced a policy of Direct Action.

    That policy directly taxed Australians to pay polluters, as Mr Turnbull said almost 10 years ago: “Any suggestion you can dramatically cut emissions without any cost, is to use a favourite term of Mr Abbott, ‘bullshit’.”

    Scott Morrison ‘prefers’ to reach net zero emissions by 2050. Photo: AAP

    Since then, renewables are cheaper than any new coal or gas alternatives to produce electricity, and when it comes to “technology to get there” – we already have it.

    Every technology roadmap we get from this government involves increasing, not curbing, carbon emissions whether it is “the gas-led recovery” or new petrol-driven hybrids.

    Not only is transport a major source of emissions in Australia, it is made worse by the fact that the country has among the dirtiest petrol in the world, because we have no mandatory standards for fuel emissions.

    And of course this suits the big petroleum companies just fine under the cover of cheaper petrol and diesel – never mind that it means we cannot import the most economical, modern engines because as Stephen Corby wrote in Cars Guide, “Our fuel is not clean enough”.

    There is plenty of factual data to support Labor leader Anthony Albanese’s criticism of the PM on Monday for not actually doing anything significantly serious in this space.

    Mr Albanese said: “He is all smirk and mirrors when it comes to action on climate change. Australians know that.”

    If they do, it’s not because the government has come completely clean with them.

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      Dennis Atkins: As ‘spinner in chief’, Scott Morrison dusts his deviousness with platitudes and cheap glitter

      pubsub.dcentralisedmedia.com / TheNewDaily · Friday, 5 February, 2021 - 19:00 · 4 minutes

    Man does job. That’s the review Scott Morrison should have been given for his underwhelming speech paraded as a launch of the political year.
    If that was a launch, Elon Musk’s twice-failed SpaceX Flagship deserves to be called a resounding success.

    It might be popular to underpromise and overdeliver but Morrison’s “to do” list outlined at the National Press Club this week was the most immodest example of modesty imaginable.

    Just to recap for those who might have nodded off, here are the “ priority areas ” for Prime Minister Morrison: “suppress the virus and deliver the vaccine; cement our economic recovery to create jobs and more jobs; to continue to guarantee the essential services that Australians rely on; protect and secure Australians’ interests in a challenging world; and, care for our country”.

    If this was a Miss World pageant, he would have probably added world peace.

    These speeches have been something of a tradition in Australian politics stretching back about two decades – starting with John Howard, who first used the end of January as a time to change the conversation and seek to control the agenda.

    Usually, these have worked well as political tactics, but occasionally they’ve gone very wrong – as happened when Julia Gillard announced a September election date on January 30.

    Morrison has clearly decided on a “no drama/no surprises” approach to 2021 – part of his election-late -this-year calculus – and his small horizon, small ambition speech filled the bill.

    Scott Morrison is hoping to underpromise and overdeliver ahead of the election. Photo: AAP

    Some columnists thought it was a “governing with the consent of the governed” moment in the spirit of 18th century British political philosopher John Locke, but that’s seeing gold in cheap glitter. It was the speech of someone who doesn’t think deeply and whose vision extends only to the bathroom mirror.

    There was, as you’d expect, some old style Detroit-grade marketing. The deployment of the word “ preferably ” recalled those heady days of the 1950s when car makers at General Motors slapped on tail fins on the previous year’s Cadillac  and called it a new vehicle.

    By sliding the word ‘preferably’ onto a vague ambition to have net zero emissions by 2050, Morrison was able to make nothing look like something.

    It wasn’t even a new “something” – the Prime Minister had used a ‘quickly as possible’ qualifier before Christmas in an address to the UK Policy Exchange.

    We were told by one journalist, and then the next, that this incremental process Morrison was playing out before us was akin to boiling a frog – we all know that version of the slippery slope or grain of sand thesis.

    What the journalists didn’t let on was that the person peddling the boiling frog story was the Prime Minister himself – the spinner in chief.

    He loves this part of his job, and those tail fins were soon flying off the production line.

    The other notable sharp notes struck were examples of a favourite political tactic by the Prime Minister. Setting up straw men, when no one within the far horizons has seen them, and then knocking them down. Morrison executes this manoeuvre with the inelegance it deserves but is given a round of applause from the cheap seats.

    First, he said he wasn’t into “the politics of envy” when asked if companies should repay JobKeeper cash they’d had pocketed despite profitability, generous executive bonuses and other signs of not needing assistance.

    The other, more brazen straw man assassination was to say he wasn’t going to impose a carbon tax or increase the GST when quizzed about having a reform agenda which exceeded the bare essentials he’d outlined.

    Apart from some fringe cheering, no one is calling for either of these policy goals.

    The other piece of hoodwinking achieved by Morrison was on election timing .

    We were told in the most informed and profound terms that Morrison didn’t want an election in 2021 – he was super keen to run the parliament into 2022.

    This is hogwash. He wants an election this year – and he will have one unless economic or political circumstances throw tyre spikes across his path.

    What he wasn’t saying in this tireless background briefing was that Coalition polling in January turned up public antipathy to talk of an early election. Get on with the job and stop talking about taking advantage of favourable conditions, said the polled few.

    This was about managing expectations, trying to get the early election thread out of the public discussion while pushing ahead with plans for a poll in the September/October window.

    On that front, nothing has changed.

    A final note on the boiling frog story. It’s an urban myth. The curator of reptiles and amphibians at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington was asked about it in 2006 and replied: “Well that’s, may I say, bullshit.”

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      How did Keith Wolahan defeat Kevin Andrews in the battle for Menzies? – Australian politics podcast

      pubsub.dcentralisedmedia.com / TheGuardian-Australia · Friday, 5 February, 2021 - 19:00

    In the first episode of the Australian politics podcast for 2021, Katharine Murphy talks with former special forces captain and barrister Keith Wolahan after he unseated veteran Liberal MP Kevin Andrews in a party preselection. How did Wolahan pull off the first unseat of a federal Liberal since 1990? What factions in the party does he associate himself? How will he approach the Liberals’ waning popularity in Victoria?

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      It's not impossible for Morrison to land a grand emissions bargain. It's just very hard | Katharine Murphy

      pubsub.dcentralisedmedia.com / TheGuardian-Australia · Friday, 5 February, 2021 - 19:00

    So far the PM’s new rhetoric on net zero doesn’t match the substance and the only way that will change is if he can corral the Nationals

    Back in the olden times, when circumstances required John Howard to backflip, he made a performance of it. Howard’s purpose was simple: the prime minister wanted everyone to notice the shift.

    Scott Morrison isn’t from the Howard backflip school. His style is more liquid. But I think Morrison wanted voters to notice when his language shifted significantly on Australia achieving net zero emissions by 2050 – a pivot that followed Joe Biden’s victory in the US election.

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      Scott Morrison announces increase to international flight caps – video

      pubsub.dcentralisedmedia.com / TheGuardian-Australia · Friday, 5 February, 2021 - 04:42

    The prime minister says Australia will increase the number of international arrivals after national cabinet agreed to raise the limits in certain states. Almost 40,000 Australians registered with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade as wanting to return remain overseas, with arrival caps and limited flights restricting their opportunities. From 15 February the number of arrivals in New South Wales and Queensland will return to previous levels while South Australia and Victoria will also increase their numbers

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