If Australia hosts Cop31 that must mean we'll officially be a petro-state. Great if we could drop all pretense to the contrary. Lab-Libs could have a joint press conference to announce it. I'm sure Woodside would kick in to pay for the catering and venue ... anything and everything really.

Kirk himself didn’t believe in empathy.

Yeah! We already have a world best-practice recipie for corruption. (The secret is to bake it into every regulatory institution. That way it's almost invisible but if detected almost indistinguishable from legitimacy.)

Grounds for sacking her?

You clearly don't. None of WA is at reasonably high altitude. I love it deeply but 'alpine' it is not.

Wondering if Elon/DOGE maybe has those documents already? Maybe this is Elon doing straight-up revenge porn now that the bromance is over?

But Greg, isn't this whole reserve policy idea just a way to gain a bit of social licence for Woodside et all, and pollies to look a bit tough and useful and distract voters from the existential threat posed by both ALP and LNP approving more gas mining?

I was thinking maybe he means that through his new US isolation the western world might be 'liberated' from US hegemony.