The government response to the bushfire crisis has been evasive, tepid, tone-deaf and above all, too late | Kevin Rudd

The Tony Abbott denialist cult has taken over the Coalition but there are productive things the government can doIt's hard to know what to write in the midst of a national apocalypse.I'm like most Australians, feeling every shade of human emotion each day as we see this living tragedy unfold before us. Each morning comes with a dull thud as we wake to the awful realisation that the new day could still be worse than the last. Continue reading...