Aaron Smith

I rarely put pen to paper, but this privileged experience was worth the exception.

Four days, a lot of walking, a few people I admire enormously, and several I do not.

It's all in here👇

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Climate science is wrong because data centres exist? Fuck me.

Electricity demand doesn’t disprove climate science. It makes decarbonisation more urgent.

Confusing the two isn’t a scientific argument. It’s a spectacular failure to understand the question.

I’m getting messages from Liberals telling me that this is a lie.

It was known.

Happy Friday from Victoria, where life remains stubbornly pleasant despite repeated assurances we're living in hell.

I’d like to congratulate Dave Hughes on a remarkable run with the Victorian Liberals.

Before the risk of breaching Victoria’s electoral donation laws brought his Liberal gigs to an end, Hughesy put his name to two appearances worth revisiting.

First, he appeared alongside Bev McArthur, who has since been referred to IBAC over her use of taxpayer funds for overseas flights.

Then he did a Williamstown pub talk with Liberal candidate Paul Lindemann, who today was disendorsed over racist posts about Indigenous Australians from an anonymous Facebook account.

Congratulations, @DHughesy, your support of these two compromised LIberal candidates has made economics look like your strong suit.