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In undeniably similar circumstances to the 2018 Lib Spill that saw Scott Morrison take-over as the Prime Minister Of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull has once again been sacked from yet another job after his appointment to a clean energy board was overturned.
Last week, NSW Environment Minister Matt Kean had vocally backed Mr Turnbull to lead the Net Zero Emissions and Clean Economy board.
This morning, however, Mr Kean released a statement saying Mr Turnbull could “distract” from the board’s goal of creating jobs in low carbon industries and reducing state emissions while growing the economy.
The only thing that appears to have happened in that time that may could have changed Matt Kean’s position is the fact that the NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro appeared on Ray Hadley’s radio show this morning, where he was effectively told to sack the former Prime Minister from the job.
To even the most politically indifferent voter, this newest sacking went down almost exactly the same way his last sacking went down.
Except last time, it wasn’t necessarily just Ray Hadley acting on behalf of the last remaining print and radio cash cow advertisers, which is the billionaire executive who work tirelessly to keep the mining sector alive, while also tax-free.
In 2018, Rupert Murdoch flew to Australia from Manhattan to host a long lunch with all the major media owners in which he gave orders to make sure Turnbull got sacked as Prime Minister because he kept talking about how burning an industrial amount of fossil fuels at an accelerating rate for over 200 years was potentially harmful for the environment – roughly 18 month before the entire country lit on fire.
Today, for this measly little role as a state government appointed board member, the ousting didn’t require that kind of artilerry.
Just one cranky old racehorse owner with a radio show that only really reaches around 30,000 pensioners and cab drivers.
Mr Turnbull has today come out and accused News Corp of running a “vendetta” against his appointment, which wasn’t really something that could be considered a revelation.
The Former Prime Minister is fortunate that he has amassed retirement nest egg to survive this ordeal financially, as many other Australians who have lost their jobs to climate change, like the Great Barrier Reef tourism and fishing operators – or the thousands of small business owners who lost their entire livelihoods in the 2019 black summer bushfires – aren’t as lucky.
MORE TO COME.
