Environment Minister Melissa Price has granted federal approval to the controversial Adani coal mine following intense pressure from her Queensland colleagues to sign off on the plan before the federal election.

In Kanbra, that dismal town

Where politicians go to shit-pledge

“Don’t be afraid, don’t be scared, it won’t hurt you. It’s coal.” With these words Australia’s Treasurer Scott Morrison taunted the Opposition, attempting to ridicule its commitment to renewable energy.

The Liberal Party has struck a deal to exchange preferences with Clive Palmer.

Picture of clouds behind North Sydney, Australia, on a day when we were promised rain and crap weather with low temperatures, from the BoM. This BoM (Bureau of Meteorology) prediction did not happen as the sun shone through a sky laden with very high humidity and a tad of EXTRA CO2 that could have made the temperature 5 degrees above what should have been. The humidity became mostly clear vapour increasing the heat, while some of it condensed in massive clouds, here and there. 

Scott Morrison was questioned extensively on Wednesday about how the Liberals and Nationals could seal a preference deal with Clive Palmer’s United Australia Party despite the treatment of workers at Queensland Nickel.

bunny

"The Special Counsel's report, even in redacted form, outlines substantial evidence that President Trump engaged in obstruction and other abuses," Mr Nadler said in a statement. 

Tony Abbott is willing to resume the leadership of the Liberal party if his parliamentary colleagues draft him but said he would not run in contested ballot for the top job.

sludge

A couple of my European friends got disappointed with the GBR. They went to three "touristic" places and all they saw was green sludge on dead corals...

Meanwhile the great debate continues with a judge not judging on the judgeable Climate Science or Freedom of Speech, but on terms of employment, meaning that should you employ an idiot who goes against your trading integrity and damages your goods, you can not sack him as this would be something like breaking a contract of employment. How stupid is this?

A Senate committee has declared political interference — or the prospect of it — is experienced "to varying degrees" throughout the ABC.

Andrew Bacevich reviews Michael Mazarr’s Leap of Faith, and he rejects the author’s contention that the Iraq war was the product of good intentions gone awry: