Wake up and inhale the smoke, Prime Minister: Huge reader response to Kean’s declaration
'', December 11). SAD or Seasonal Affective Disorder used to be about depression related to the grey, gloomy cold of winter which coops people up inside their houses. Summer in Australia, once an iconically exciting and enjoyable season, is now a SAD reality. -With 13 sleeps till Christmas Day I checked the weather forecast and our collection of songs and found nothing to be seasonally optimistic or appropriate.
In the face of the bushfire crisis our PM and our state premier have abandoned us. Scott Morrison’s “thoughts and prayers" have even dried up. As for sending in the army to help with the bushfires ... and our Premier is silent. What could this mean? Have they both abandoned even the pretence of representing the interest of Australians? Are they both waiting for the rapture? They seem to not give a flying fig about the fate of victims, the cost or stopping the fire.
Yes Prime Minister, you have to hold back these volunteers to take their rest breaks, but only because they're desperate for it to be blacked out. What my partner really wants to do is start work on his final trimester in his degree at Southern Cross University. What he really wants is the government to provide air tanker support, which this fire has not had. Air support to slam this fire and black it out.
How small must these dimwits feel in hindsight, gasping for breath in a curtain raiser of what we can look forward to as we pray for enough water to stay alive? –In addition to dramatically reducing our own emissions, Australia should do whatever we can to help other countries reduce theirs. Professor Frank Jotzo has identified that there are a number of practical ways to do this including for example replacing “diesel-based electricity generation with renewable energy systems” .
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