For the international accounts following me: Australia currently has hundreds of climate crisis-induced mega-fires burning across the country.
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There have been multiple deaths due to these fires burning across Australia. The PM has not paid his respects.
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“I don’t hold a hose mate, I don’t sit in the control room,” said the PM, as ppl cowered through the night in the bush, as embers fell and fires roared
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Firefighters have been running out of equipment and paying for items - like face masks - out of pocket. The PM has not authorised release of funds to ensure firefighters are properly equipped. The PM is silent, MPs say the public doesn’t care, it’ll blow over
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Sydney’s air quality is 500 times above “hazardous level”. It has been that way for weeks. Photographs of the Australian Prime Minister sitting on a beach in Hawaii are all over social media
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The bushfires are creating their own microclimates and lightning strikes. The Australian public is fundraising for muesli bars and cold drinks for firefighters
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I could post the pics of chargrilled koalas, fire tornados, sobbing homeless fire survivors, fire volunteers covered in soot, scorched landscape, ash covered beaches, burnt homes, polluted air, mass die-offs of native animals, traumatised people - all the images of climate crisis
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So here’s the unimaginable image instead: Prime Minister Morrison on an overseas island holiday, while Australia burnspic.twitter.com/NJ6ZoIKS5Y
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The firefighters whose colleagues died fighting these fires returned to work today. The PM is nowhere to be seen https://twitter.com/9newsqueensland/status/1208230798828154880?s=21 …https://twitter.com/9NewsQueensland/status/1208230798828154880 …
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