Joyce’s $1.5 billion fossil fuel handout shows how we’re now a carbon state

Yesterday the government announced it was handing $1.5 billion to its fossil fuel donors, gratis.

Labor backed the handout — it too is a recipient of fossil fuel donations — and the media didn’t bat an eyelid.

David Crowe in Nine newspapers at least reported it, noting that it was part of the government’s campaign to wrest Solomon from Labor and that Barnaby Joyce made a false claim about the funding — not to mention that the government had approved the sale of the existing Darwin port to a Chinese company in 2015, which now looks like a major strategic blunder given the subsequent deterioration of relations with China.

That was far better reporting than an effort from Seven News that