I've always felt most of the current political class is completely ignorant of dystopian scfi, history, and literature in general.

If they have been exposed to dystopian scifi, I can only conclude they are trying to implement as much of it as they can.

Please tell me this is true 🥺

I'd like to like your reply but I don't like the truth it contains

Doesn't sound like Netflix has improved since my trial subscription ended.

The, so called, "moderates" always blink.

Possibly, but there are KPIs in that salary package that are never going to be met. So they are not going to be out of pocket anywhere near what the headlines say.

Wow, there was almost another Trioli moment in there.

I think the question is how much do average voters care about climate change. Net Zero as a term, rather than the concept, is how politicians identify themselves as being in favour of, or against, positive climate action.

To anyone not engaged in the science or politics that's all it means.

Trump will never be a domestic political problem for Albo as long as the opposition (what's left of it) and the main stream media keep claiming he is mismanaging the AU/US alliance.

Yep, dopey for sure. But they are trading tax and royalties for campaign donations. It's corruption.

Don't you mean corrupt?

And they have walked away from the Nats before.

Bloody hell.

And I thought I was bad at maths.

Show off

Took you a while to figure that out 😉

You can have him if we can have Jacinda?