Big upwards revisions in STEPS as well

Still pretty big tho!!

When the LNP made its formal pledge under Paris of net zero by 2050,

- Sussan was Env Minister
- Angus was Climate Minister
- Barnaby was Dept PM and minister for regional development.

Were they taking the piss then or are they now?

It's all kinda meaningless anyway but then in our political debate meaningless nonsense is kinda the core reality.

I bet what they do is put some extra/ more explicit hedging caveats on the net zero 2050 target, so they can say different things to different people, including to the UN climate process that they aren't actually backsliding

Sorry not sorry this saga is very funny

A super interesting summary from the man who was Secretary of Prime Minister and Cabinet at the time.

johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11...

All very interesting but that's about it.

There was also some thing about Doug Antony being accused of being put up in Canberra by someone linked to the CIA

Whitlam was planning to disclose this deception publicly in Parliament when he was dismissed.

In Whitlam was asking questions about the role of the CIA in Pine Gap. He was told there was none, but had discovered the CIA was closely involved (and US interests basically running the show).

Nixon absolutely hated Whitlam, who was raising questions about the unquestioned US military interests in Australia. Probably also the economic nationalism which rankled US corporate interests.

In 1974 Nixon had drawn up a plan to get rid of Whitlam including economic measures.

Kerr was a former officer in the OSS, the WWII predecessor to the CIA.

(He was also a fabulous drunk)

Also, reforestation largely recaptures the carbon from deforestation. Fossil emissions are additional