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The Australien Government wasn't allowed to speak at the latest Climate Summit – so it made an ad about its climate policy instead, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

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This is a special double-length Honest Government Ad, featuring our first ever time-travel sequence because there's just so much shitfuckery to cover ✨

Thank you @RichieMerzian (and others who shall not be named) for helping me get my head around this gordian knot of a story, and to make sure graphs and figures are correct. Any errors are of course my own - and the government's

Also a shout-out to @simonahac who first explained this story to me in January, when he came on the Juice Media Podcast. I couldn't believe my ears, but I knew right away we had to make an HGA about it so that people could get their head around it more easily.

But then of course Covid happened, and then the US election, so I had to put this script on hold. I'm glad we've managed to round off the year with the video I planned to make in March - which is just so 2020

I want to make it very clear that we're not "breaking" this story. Many brilliant scholars and journos have written about it over the years, in detail. One of my favourite examples is @CliveCHamilton, whose piece in the Conversation is really worth reading theconversation.com/australia-hit-…

Man, @CliveCHamilton and the @TheAusInstitute were onto this bullshit right from the start: check out this media release from 1998 I came across whilst doing my research for this video. Respect

And of course @RichieMerzian has written about it powerfully, using analogies to help people get their heads around the shitfuckery climatechangenews.com/2019/10/22/aus…

And Tim Baxter has gone beast-mode in making graphs to help people visually the shitfuckery too and this thread is a gold mine:

https://twitter.com/timinmitcham/status/1231073549479116800?s=20

And of course @KetanJ0 is so good at conveying the utter shame of Australia's international climate politics - this is just his latest on the topic ketanjoshi.co/2020/12/05/thi…

So the way I saw this was: OK, people have written about itm but we need a compressed explainer that brutally (but accurately) synthesizes the complexity of this story down to a nugget of shitfuckery people can get their head around. Which ofc is what satire is so good at

The podcast companion for this HGA will come out next week - there's a LOT to unpack.

And we'll publish the PG version on Monday, so teachers keep and eye on our PG page: thejuicemedia.com/teachers

Big shout-out to @yahtzio who stayed up late with me on more than one night to help out with visual effects 🙏

And to Ellen, Zoë & Lucy for putting such a lot of hard work into this episode, even re-shooting scenes when we realised we had to update the video.

Amazing team 💁‍♀️💛

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Damn, almost forgot - huge thanks to @drkylieharris for her research assistance on this HGA, and on many of our other videos relating to the climate emergency this year. Thanks Kylie, glad to get this one out finally! 💛🙏