Timing is everything

Paul Bongiorno’s surmise, based on the Covid situation, that Scott Morrison is marshalling the troops for a November tilt at The Lodge (“Crood language in the workplace”,

August 28–September 3) may reveal only part of the reasoning. Another good reason to run early would be to avoid another bushfire and cyclone season. With a wet spring predicted, by November everything will be lush; the pasture will be growing and the winter crops looking set for a bumper harvest. The parks and gardens of suburbia will be blooming and everything will seem right with the world.

Come March and the chances of having had another searing and violent summer season, plus the post-lockdown reality of empty shops, it will be all too evident that climate change and the allied pandemic have become an existential reality. Whatever you may think of Scotty the Fixer, Scotty from Marketing is no slouch.

– John Mosig, Kew, Vic