Australia Is Committing Climate Suicide – Richard Flanagan

We look at a New York Times opinion piece from Novelist Richard Flanagan, who draws a parallel between Australia now, and what happened to the USSR after the Chernobyl disaster.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/03/opinion/australia-fires-climate-change.html

Richard Flanagan won the Man Booker Prize for “The Narrow Road to the Deep North” and is the author, most recently, of the novel “First Person.”

The Man Of Titanium And The Lunatics In The Asylum”

I discuss the intersection between politics, economics and housing with journalist Tarric Brooker, who uses the handle @AvidCommentator on Twitter.

Given the current political ideology, are we likely to see any change of trajectory given some of the issues we are facing into? Will the surplus remain sacrosanct?