We don’t know for sure if Nero played violin while Rome burnt. If it did happen, it was likely a different instrument, perhaps a kithara. But that other question – of whether a leader could be so frivolous and uncaring in the face of such catastrophe – was answered this week by Scott Morrison.
Eventually, rosin on his hands, the prime minister said the smoke in Sydney was “deeply troubling” for “families and kids”. He blamed the drought and the dryness of the bush. He said Australia’s climate policies couldn’t affect the weather. “I acknowledged earlier this year, in February, that climate change, along with many other factors, contribute to what is occurring today.”
Anthony Albanese is no better. He is spruiking the market for coal. He is worried about Labor’s future, not the country’s. We have a government incapable of leadership and an opposition unable to oppose.
Read the Editorial from The Saturday Paper - “This is an emergency.”
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