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I have been sounding the klaxons on this since last year, including behind the scenes work with environmental activists, warning against calling for a climate emergency because Morrison will seek extreme executive (“emergency”) powers. Glad to see MBW on the case. https://twitter.com/michaelwestbiz/status/1319117242806751232
have been saying for even longer that the wholly unnecessary off shore detention torture for such tiny numbers of refugees is probably a climate refugees prototype.
from 9 November 2019 (posted to fb 29 Jan 2020):
link to the pod here (militarisation of climate emergency around 44) https://www.spreaker.com/user/auspollive/auspol-live-with-ingrid-mathews
wrote this two months ago: https://imatthewsblog.com/2020/08/15/if-there-is-a-morrison-doctrine-it-is-mission-creep/
and with the greatest of respect, pointing to Morrison government hypocrisies and calling for the Morrison government “to come clean” has zero efficacy. The world needs propertied whiteness, collectively, to step up a lot further than that.
from DAY ONE the “Natural” National Disaster Royal Commission was headed by a military man because its agenda is militarisation of the Commonwealth response to anthropogenic disasters like the “first wave” #ClimateFires we have already seen. From. Day. One.
consider this: a man who militarises Acknowledgment of Country will militarise anything.
