I don't see that a complete take over of Australia Government by China can be much worse than the idiocy we have now. So far, China isn't directly denying the causes of climate change and threatening to pull out of the Paris 2015 climate accord. Few people can do this so well as Tony Abbott and still manage to keep their electoral seat pre-selection. It might have helped if the LNP had actually had an alternative pre-selection candidate to choose from. Liberal party members had to choose between Tony Abbott and no one, and a sizeable minority thought that no-one was the best choice. We shall now hope that electorate voters do the right thing.

Here is a link to a Graham Redfern article, on DeSmog Blog, about a finding which got next to no mention by the Big Political Parties and Media. It shows the influence of Gina Rinehart and also no doubt, her fellow class mates, on the Australian Government. Money does it all. The IPA is an influential right wing think tank with close ties to Australia’s governing Liberal Party. IPA fellows regularly appear in the media. Payments suggest that more than a third of the IPA’s income in 2016 and 2017 was from HPPL — majority-owned privately by Gina Rinehart.

Facebook video shows many Australians rising up for climate against the coal coup leadership spill of the australian federal Government.

Online book of terrific pictures and text that graphically describe our current world and predicaments of now.

Has to be seen to be believed, much better than any expensive tourist holiday.

Best viewed on a large screen.
Overdevelopment X Overpopulation = Overshoot

At this rate , pretty soon, earth is going to be "Game OVER".

Shinehub community power - Two events at Dundas Community Hall Wednesday 19th September 2018. Australians pay some of the highest prices in the world for dirty unsustainable coal-fired energy. But solar gives you the power to fight back. ShineHub - Pingala in partnership with ParraCAN are launching a solar and battery campaign to lower home energy costs=2C by up to 90%. In this process you will be helping to build Sydney's largest virtual power plant.

I do not see this sort of Article very often in a News Ltd publication.
State governments everywhere, cater specially for the interests of less than one percent of population, while their propaganda targets the bottom 20% of population. When the serfs start to doubt, then governments may tumble.

Australia is no exception. The domesticated politicians of Australian governments by priority support the interests of foreign coal and mining interests, invested in by those elites who are far less than one percent of voters.

This is now officially denied by latest Prime Muppet, Scott Morrison, parliamentary coal handler extraordinaire, who wears an Australia Flag Badge, as faked authenticity.
History shows that States always, everywhere, are enemies of the truth. States are about growth, and expanding our take from nature. States are instigators of war, concentrators of wealth and power, tools of oppression, and the playgrounds of influence by elites. Australian governments are deep in their games of mates. Its time for a big clean-out.

Australian States, as high per capita carbon emissions, are fossil fuel powered in energy and politics alike. Truths about climate change are ignored and suppressed.

Many people will now be taking these matters into their own hands. People everywhere are installing their own solar panel and battery systems, at far greater rates than before. Australian Governments have resisted the need to plan for rapid phase out of fossil fuel stationary energy generation, which is a vital first step for overall carbon emissions reductions. These poor coal critter excuses for a government need to be tumbled down into the coal mine pits from whence they came.

This is very strong evidence that the NSW Liberal Government is run for and by the interests of International Coal Oligarchs.

Water should be of prime concern for Sydney's 5 million and growing population, as we should expect the next centuries of climate change heat waves and drought.

The sacrifice of water supply quantity and quality, by NSW Government, for more Climate Change causing Coal Mining, is a typical example of lobby-purchased climate change denial and sacrifice of public interest. Obviously the NSW miniions of the Coal Oligarchs are happy to sacrifice their grand-childrens future. As usual NSW government ignores the dreadful ecological crimes that they are committing.

NEG - National Everlasting bullshit Guarantee - from Juice Media.
-- from our Coalition government of keeping our Coal Moron Forum happy. The Australian Coal Oligarchy wants to hold back any change from being a massive fossil fuel burning and waste production society. Government PR that says you can always have everything for next to nothing is pure bullshit.

Renew economy article indicates that the Coal Oligarchy are still trying to rule Australia via the NEG - a gift for the Monomaniac Coal Forum aimed at keeping carbon emission reductions to minimum.  Our advancing climate change emergency says we need to pushing past targets and policy faster than we can make them. The northern hemisphere is in major heatwaves and wildfires.  Our turn next. Large scale climate change and drought advances in Australia.

Robert Hunziker and others tell it like it is. Train wrecks in progress.

The corporate media has failed abysmally at preparing the public for a climate changed world, let alone reporting on it. Forget about it for any serious alarmed mention by any of the major party politicians & media in Australia. Forget about it for anything but seriously same-old public relations bullshit in shovel loads of readiness for next federal election.

Quotes from Kevin Mackay, author of "Radical Transformation: Oligarchy, Collapse, and the Crisis of Civilization"

Jared Diamond argued that many past civilizations have collapsed due to their inability to make correct decisions in the face of existential threats.

To Tainter, the ultimate mistake failed civilizations make is to continually solve problems by adding social complexity, and as a result, increasing the society’s energy needs.

However, what Tainter and Diamond failed to appreciate is how oligarchy– control over societal decision-making by a numerically small, self-interested elite –  is an even more fundamental cause of civilization collapse.

The problem is that societal elites benefit from the system’s dysfunctions, and prevent available solutions.

Human beings are still by recent evolution, at the core of our being, animals with deep survival instincts. One of those is the nurturing of children. A recurring theme in psychology of motivation for action on Climate Change, is to emphasis our instincts for family nurture and care, to work towards having a future environment that is survivable and sustainable for our children and grand-children.

Another one is to decrease the competitive instincts between leaders, who show great public distrust of one another. One potential solution is therefore to use this competitive mindset by having leaders compete over global reputations. For example, installing a "sustainable city award" may help majors to develop local policy to reduce car use in their cities or promote public transportation.

Unfortunately, survival of anybody at all, will not be enabled by current trends of pitting all against all. Cooperation has to be applied where it is really going to matter. Heads in the sands won't work. Heads in the sand will work even less in our children's future.

Anthropogenic Climate Change, ought to be relabelled as "Economic Climate Change", since collapsing our global economy is the only possible way that remains to maintain a human habitable planet. In any case, the global economy will collapse regardless in another decade or two, after production limits for fossils take hold, but only after we have made future climate change that much worse again.

Solar photovoltaic and wind power are rapidly getting cheaper and more abundant – so much so that they are on track to entirely supplant fossil fuels worldwide within two decades, with the time frame depending mostly on politics. The protestation from some politicians that we need to build new coal stations sounds rather quaint. I do know that eventually their growth will and must become linear rather than exponential, because of "limits to growth" on all things, but at the moment we need it to be exponential.

Seeking Maximum Power for any one part of our beautiful, complex and un-fathomable world, to me, is the same as seeking maximum extinction. I found this older piece by Kurt Cobb relevant to our current predicaments. There is specific history of meanings to "Maximum Power Principle" - not the same as maximum efficiency, or maximum complexity or maximum diversity, or maximum resilience, and I am on the lookout for more insights into this.

When politicians from opposing sides look for solutions, on the basis of evidence and in the common interest, remarkable things can be achieved. Too bad it doesn't happen everywhere all the time, because that is actually what is needed, because Global Warming is still getting worse everywhere all the time. Australian Government has yet to learn this lesson. In fact the history of Australian Government inter-party and intra-party collaboration on matters related to Climate Change matters is shamefully bad. At least the UK Committee on Climate Change, to advise the UK government, is still intact, whereas this current Australian Government has just about abolished every effort to even consider it. What is left of previous efforts is the Australian Climate Council, now  fully dependent on public financial support. Given the political history so far, Australia's Climate Council funding independence needs to be considered a very good thing, but Australian Government isolation from serious multi-party political discussion of climate reality is a very bad thing.

Dear Minister for Energy,  NSW government,

Its pretty obvious from 2 recent books I have read in full, that our state and federal governance regards global warming, comes last among all the other environmental predicaments. All are afraid of doing anything that might actually help. We have an entire culture of first - class idiots and elites throwing away the life-boats on their Titanic engine of Global Growth. Faster and Further go the Life Bull-Dozers, while the captains of industry refuse to change course.

Shrinking the Earth - Donald Worster
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/donald-worster/shrinking-the-earth/

The Great Derangement - Amitav Ghosh
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/29362082-the-great-derangement

Really, you can't eat the earth then live on it afterward

He wants to fund Adani,
The biggest dirty coal-men,
A global warming Con-Demn, **
For heads that think so Tiny.

** A Condom is required for any contractual relations. Divorce or abstinence is much safer.

Growth and Trade are thought to be "good" for everyone, just ask Australian Trade Minister Mr Steven Ciobo.

Only the costs to ecosystems and climate are extemely high. Easier to say when it is a "foreign" empire.

As the linked article implies, we take less care for other nations ecosystems. Globalist corporations find it easiest of all, with no sense of national home.

So easy to not see this. Is this another "great acceleration"? It undoes goals to reduce global carbon emissions. Now we have to rely on the economic collapse of fossil fuel production, to stop climate derangement.

The already established Anglo-European trade empire, enabled by oil, accelerated mutual consumption of everything, that is what trade and growth does, and accelerated climate change.