Flames Rise Around Us with Democracy Facing Trial and Denial

Our fire seasons keep getting hotter and longer. The world has been burning all year, North America is ablaze, and Queensland has suffered tragic losses to the out of control fires burning there. Here in NSW we are yet to see the worst of it but our courageous fireies are breathing a sigh of relief as rains fall to dampen the dozens of fires threatening a Black Spring. Daniel Ainsworth from the Northern Rivers Regional Fire Service (RFS) joins Environmental as Anything to report on the progress of their ceaseless vigil over our fire safety.

Meanwhile across Australia the legitimacy of democracy is under threat as citizens are charged with speaking the truth while the climate criminals walk away scott free. We have reports from canberra and Grafton where The APPEA5 and Ellis Forest Protectors faced court for peacefully resisting extinction.

Denialists continue to badger the adults in the room with their ignorance. Every now and then they actually get a chance to have their delusions comprehensively put to bed by a truly emmminent scientist. This week in the NSW Parlliamentary Inquiry into the ALP's Zero Futures Bill which proposes to weaken our climate targets, MP for the LDP John Ruddick, dusted off his Phd in Non Seqiturs from Dunning Kurger University and challenged former cheif scientist of Australia Prof Penny Sackett to explain why he didn't understand the climate emergency. She knocked his mischevious questions out of the park with grace and dignity. We have an illuminating extract from that exchange and more from the bipartisan committee looking into that legislation.

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