259 – Polly Hemming

Polly Hemming is a Senior Researcher at The Australia Institute’s Climate & Energy Program.

Just this week she was giving evidence to a Parliamentary committee on the Labor Party’s signature climate policy, the “Safeguard Mechanism” – which, I’m sorry to say, stinks. It stinks real bad.

Here Polly lays out exactly just how much of a mess this policy is: how it’s not designed to reduce emissions that are cooking the planet, but rather protect the profits and interests of the fossil fuel lobby. We also discuss the DEEPLY dodgy world of carbon offsets and the marketisation of the natural world, and wonder how this whole thing is going to play out politically.

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My debut book I, Millennial: One Snowflake’s Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires & Everything Else is out now

I’m currently touring my new stand up show IT IS I all over the country: ADELAIDE | GOLD COAST | CANBERRA | MELBOURNE | SYDNEY | CAIRNS | TOOWOOMBA | BRISBANE

To get discounted tickets to Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne & Sydney, use the promo code PODCAST

For discounted tickets to my shows in Brisbane, click here

I’m doing just 2 shows of my comedy lecture YES/NO at the Melbourne Comedy Festival – BOOK HERE 

Check out with my other podcast about the Greens and green politics with Emerald Moon, Serious Danger

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Polly’s speech, “What is Climate Integrity?” 

Labor’s Safeguard policy is a mirror image of fossil industry greenwashing by Ketan Joshi for RenewEconomy.com.au

The Great Stock’n’Coal Swindle by Nick Feik

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Lefties Up Late: A Fundraiser for the Albury Greens

This’ll be great fun!

Tom Ballard is an award-winning stand up comedian/actor/writer/broadcaster/person/Greens member. He hosted his own late-night comedy show for the ABC, Tonightly with Tom Ballard (which was cancelled for being too funny) and has been seen on everything from Spicks & Specks to The Project to the Melbourne Comedy Festival’s Oxfam Gala.

Since 2021, along with his mate Emerald Moon, Tom’s co-hosted Serious Danger: a podcast about the Greens and green politics in Australia, which is 100% the main reason why the party did so well in the 2022 election.

Don’t miss this chance to join Tom, your local Greens team, more special guests to be announced and contribute to the green-slide in NSW.

Doors open at 7pm for a 7:30pm start.

 

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YES/NO: A Comedy Lecture About Changing The Country

As well as my stand up show IT IS I, I’ll be performing this brand new load of shouting at MICF 2023 for TWO SHOWS ONLY.

 

For the first time since 1999, the Australian people will soon be asked to vote on changing our constitution.

The last time we said “yes” was more than 45 years ago.

Join Year 11 Legal Studies graduate and university law dropout Tom Ballard as he deploys jokes and funny pictures to blast through the history of Australian referenda and to ask the big questions: What the hell is wrong with us? Why are we so afraid of change? Why does our constitution suck so hard? Should we just start this whole thing again, please?

Don’t miss out on the limited run of this special comedy event – these shows will sell out.

As seen on Tonightly with Tom Ballard.

 

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BOOK LAUNCH TOUR, BABY

I’m launching my whittle book in MELBOURNE, SYDNEY & BRISBANE and would love you to come along to watch me be all intellectual and shit.

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The world is in chaos. It’s time for a revolution and “comedian” Tom Ballard is ready to serve as its glorious leader.

After 30 years of his entitled Millennial life, Ballard has had enough of the smashed avocado jokes. He’s furious at the raw deal his generation has been given, and he’s pretty sure things can’t be this crappy because of brunch.

It’s not your imagination: Millennials really have inherited the bill for our current ‘prosperity’, and it sucks. Millennials have been handed a housing crisis, crippling student debt, the gig economy, a cooked planet, a truly broken political system and now a global pandemic, as a treat. For a moment it looked like COVID-19 might radically change things – like housing the homeless and lifting the unemployed out of poverty – but it ended up just making rich ghouls like Gerry Harvey even richer.

In I, Millennial: One Snowflake’s Screed Against Boomers, Billionaires & Everything Else, Ballard unpicks how we got here and why.

 

MELBOURNE

WHEN: 6:30pm, Wednesday November 30th

WHERE: Easey Street Concert Hall, 35 Easey Street Collingwood

IN CONVERSATION WITH: Osman Faruqi

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SYDNEY

WHEN: 6:30pm, Friday December 2nd

WHERE: Better Read Than Dead, 265 King St, Newtown

IN CONVERSATION WITH: Jan Fran

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BRISBANE

WHEN: 6:30pm, Tuesday December 6th

WHERE: 193 Boundary St, West End QLD 4101

IN CONVERSATION WITH: Emerald Moon

Book here.