Blue Sky thinking Sky News UK is launching The Daily Climate Show, which it claims is the first daily prime time news show dedicated solely to climate change. Of course, Sky News Australia has been dedicating a great deal of air time to the issue too, just not exactly during prime time.
We wonder what the UK team would make of its stablemate’s after dark takes:
Indeed, just three days ago Rowan Dean shared an incredible insight that throws doubt on the scientific consensus around climate change: “So much for all those global warming predictions,” he says, because it’s been raining:
We hope his UK colleagues don’t overlook this new information.
We have some questions The ABC’s flagship show for making literally no one happy, Q+A, will tackle this week “how we can design a better, more equal world”. To that end, it’s enlisted French economist Thomas Piketty, author of the widely acclaimed and hugely influential study of inequality, Capital in the Twenty-First Century.
Alongside this intellectual heavyweight are, among others, The Australian‘s economics editor Adam Creighton and UNSW economics professor Gigi Foster. We will be interested to see if their view on solving inequality involves as many avoidable deaths as their solutions to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Building a cabinet Back on Friday, Western Australian Emperor Premier Mark McGowan unveiled his cabinet, giving a few clues as to what he plans to do with his record majority.
McGowan gives himself the keys to treasury — I mean, who was going to tell him no? Meanwhile, John Quigley prepares to definitely not do anything about voting values in the upper house, now that he’s minister for electoral affairs as well as attorney-general, and Alannah MacTiernan continues the role she has always held: senior Labor figure.
Trump watch Apparently Donald Trump’s first major post-presidency project will be a return to social media — via his own platform. After all, the major players banned him for, you know, inciting an attack on Capitol Hill.
“This is something that I think will be the hottest ticket in social media,” long-time Trump adviser Jason Miller told Fox News. “Everyone wants him and he’s going to bring millions and millions — tens of millions — to this platform.”
And look, we’ll definitely be checking it out — if only to see if Trump returns to the sheer performance art-level weirdness of his pre-presidency tweets:
Government communications It hardly feels like a coincidence that the day after the federal government announced JobSeeker would be cut by $50 a week from April 1, this email about “taking difficult phone calls” was sent to government staff:
Why the “Emperor” crack Charlie?
That’s how the W.A. voters voted, and that makes him the State Premier. if you don’t like it , then as they say in W.A., Tough Titties.
Nobody from WA ever says “tough titties”…you stretch. I quite liked the expression, “Emperor”..because that is exactly what he has become. An Emperor with no clothes.
Re: Q&A…what on earth is Hamish McDonald, and others, doing to this show? Why would anybody want to listen to TWO bloody dills on economics…Creighton and Foster…when we have Thomas Picketty on the program?
One of these ‘idiots’ would have been more than sufficient.
Could do better, Hamish!!!!!!
Q&a like insiders is a pale shadow of its former self.
Well done Ita!
Rohan Dean is quite simply Australia’s best comedian.
His comedy rants are unmissable!
Rowan Dean has a very dislikeable persona and the very reason why I can’t stomach watching Sky After Dark.
I have quite a few other reasons, like it costs money.
He appears dislikeable at first, but as you get to know him better he turns out to be absolutely repugnant….
The ‘Daily climate show’. Why don’t they have the ‘Daytime night TV Show’ or the ‘Upside down right ways TV Show’, or the ‘Black white TV Show’.
Muppets!