I recall a Kurt Vonnegut novel where the Chinese, because they had such a big population and thus a big food problem, decided to scientifically make themselves smaller, and smaller in size in each generation...thus each needing less food...to the extent they became the size of microbes drifting in the wind...and they drifted across the world and everyone inhaled them...and then they grew colonies inside people. It was a fun story. It had great elements of creative imagination and the essence of western psychotic paranoia about China in it...I like Kurt Vonnegut. He told a damn good story.

I think the only way to rid ourselves of noxious folk like Donald Trump and Scott Morrison, and that English Idiot, is to stop reading about them, and for journalists to stop reporting the stupid things they say. As Kurt Vonnegut noted: they are simply a 'grand falloon... 'what you get when you take the air out of a balloon'.

Ah, well, with Scott Morrison as our effervescent conservative Prime Minister, I'm going to bed happily tonight, and will have a good sleep and wake up to personally determine the impact of 'the new normal' of whatever it is that is so important that he has to be on tv talking about it all day, every day, without saying what he means about all the things we can't afford because he gave all the money to the banks and his mates. Sad beleaguered man obviously needs a holiday. Hawaii sounds nice.

As for a good possible Australian Prime Minister, I can only see Penny Wong, from the Labor Party/Senate Leader, as a real possibility. She is a hard, driven, committed person with great mental alacrity and capacity...and far more a true bureaucrat than a matinee idol. I think she would do well. She could bring both consensus and clear direction. At least you would know that the serious responsibility was in the hands of someone who you knew was a serious being & who knew what they were actually doing. Wow, wouldn't Fox News be upset!

As for the um... Senior Royals ... standing back from Royal duties, I think there is a B grade movie in that story. The talentless useless Prince and the fast ageing cable TV ex-star facing the hurdles of real life in 21st century California, with Trump as President...having afternoon tea in the caravan park with his relative, the Royal Sweaty Pizza Eating Rooter, on the run from paedophilia and rape charges...yes, that film could work, it could work, if Disney does it nicely. It's the Royal Family, it's American Ambition, it's about Freedom; it's got it all.

I find the disturbing thing about the Australian Government, in terms of the ongoing ridiculously big fires etc, is that this is not a bunch of people who really are committed to fixing up things, nor do they have the skills, experience, or even desire to fix up things. It is not what they signed up for. Being on TV and talking at cameras is cool, but, beyond that, well...who can we blame? Can we blame China? can we blame Iran? Scott Morrison does do well in marketing and on TV, true, but, really, neither of those things have anything at all to do with the hard job of governance, of scope, capacity, endurance, risk, progression, or enduring social benefit at all. Scott Morrison and his very odd, to the point of peculiar, deputy, Peter 'That Odious Bald Cunt' Dutton. These are Morning Breakfast News camera folk. Light entertainment interspersed with positive advertisements for the banks. Matinee idols who really don't have a clue, & can't have a clue. What is happening, although Scott will be on the TV everyday, and Peter will be hiding until Scott gets the knife...is a failure of government through atrocious leadership, low quality untalented wishy-washy people with the great only desire to be in the News.

I've been trying to put my views on climate change and the Australian Government into 2 brief paragraphs, and I think I've done it, and it is a considered view: 1: Australia is the second highest polluter in the world, per capita, but, at the same time, there aren't many people here, and we really wouldn't be missed if we disappeared completely. We are not world leaders or a good example for anyone, anywhere. We never have been, & never will be. At 25 million, we are smaller in culture, history, meaning and impact than one decent Asian City. Still, climate change due to pollution is true so we should do our share to reduce these emissions in league with other countries rather than try to lie and cheat and tweak the numbers etc. 2: Accepting that pollution is causing a lot of climate change, the Government needs to invest huge amounts into making the transition to a Much Hotter World much better and safer for folk in this country. It should have been doing this for decades. It has failed us. It continues to fail us, its own people, and indeed, in our small part to play, and, yes, it is a small part, it is failing the greater world itself.