so the Royal Commission into expanding federal executive power, hazard reduction burning and land clearing, headed by deputy ADF chief Air Chief Marshall Mark Binskin (ret) will hold an online opening ceremony today.

*Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements. Regular reminder that framing the catastrophic 2019-2020 fire season as “natural disaster” is climate change denialism.

the way Morrison constantly slurred together and conflated national and natural disaster is the same comms strategy he uses for jobseeker and jobkeeper payments. The purposes are plausible deniability and deliberately sowing confusion among both reporters and the populace.

would it kill political journalists to join the dots between federal government desire to expand executive power and federal government failure to provide actual relief - instead of constant, highly politicised announcements - throughout both bushfire and pandemic disasters?

A: gallery journalists are too vastly overinvested in amplifying the ludicrous ideological claims Morrison makes about his hyper-political and mediocre at best disaster response policies. Like they were in Abbott and Turnbull. Also conceding error is not a strong point.

an aside, Frydenberg was asked this morning if he is going to read the Turnbull tome. The Treasurer gave that trademark tory forced mirthless laugh and said he would be only reading briefing papers but “no doubt” a copy will be on his bookshelf.

as night follows day, ABC radio news just reported that the Royal Commission opening today will look at “how the nation responds to bushfires and other natural disasters” #ClimateFires #MorrisonFires

oh and the preferred Morrison branding is “black summer”. He is, unmistakably, pushing back on a massive groundswell of support for the only effective policy setting, which is to expand and properly resource First Peoples-led cultural burning.

so ya know. If they follow twitter trends at all, and they do, my recommendation is to add #ClimateFires and/or #MorrisonFires to comments on the RC.