A now usual smoky haze covered the city skyline as thousands of
ticked off citizens streamed across the Sydney Harbour Bridge on
Saturday, demanding drastic action from the government in the face
of fire conditions that authorities had deemed
catastrophic.
"Scomo, fuck you. We deserve a future too" was the
chant that rang out from young and old as they marched in unison,
recognising that the
hundreds of fires raging nationwide are indiscriminate in their
destruction, just as is the abandonment of any meaningful form
political leadership.
The prime minister was yet to have arrived
back in the country, after he'd apologised and decided to
cut short the Hawaiian holiday he'd taken right in the middle
of an unprecedented calamity that a growing majority assert his
government's fossil fuel addicted policies are stoking the
flames of.
