However the remaining Labor/Greens ministry and their colleagues are equally culpable for the sorry state of affairs that has emerged for far too many bus and rail users.

Those decision-makers have also refused to acknowledge, let alone investigate, the unacceptable outcomes at their local electorate level.

Much operational remediation, connection coordination and other basic passenger support initiatives are needed to restore lost faith and trust in the ability of the government and its officials to deliver on the years of promised 'improvements', particularly for users of local bus services and those making multi-trip journeys.

No one wants action on the current week day and weekend deficiencies delayed so the government can instead disguise or dress them up as enticing new election promises for October 2020.

Those affected will recognise such ruses easily at 1000 'active travel' paces, having been served up enough public transport management-speak, distracting excuses and meaningless statistics since April 29 to last at least the next 10 years.

A, if not the, key cause of the lack of weekend bus services ('Secret bus plan shelved', p1, November 14) is that ACT Labor and its fellow travellers (pun intended), including the Transport Workers Union, have effectively controlled the Assembly since 2001.

Hence, ministers (in this case Transport Minister Chris Steel) and the bureaucracy, understandably, operate primarily to keep the peace with the dominant political force in Canberra.

The people of Canberra come a distant second (particularly, in this case, people in outlying suburbs and people who do not have access to a car), are given excuses for the lack of weekend bus services, and promised improvement in the future (closer to the next ACT Election?).

A minister who was actually accountable to voters would disclose the facts and put forward options to reliably provide more weekend services.

With respect to the facts, pertinent information to make public includes: the average annual income of Transport Canberra drivers (I fully support a strong role for unions, however having a volunteer only weekend workforce looks somewhat dated in a service industry, particularly if the drivers are well remunerated); and how many drivers have been recruited recently and are recent recruits required to work at least some weekends.

With respect to options, one option is essentially outlined on the following page of Thursday's Canberra Times - Transport Canberra could engage share-ride drivers to provide weekend transport services between suburbs and their Town Centre.

Passengers could pay the equivalent of a bus fare, and Transport Canberra pays the balance - which may cost less than operating the previous weekend bus service.

Providing a reliable and comprehensive weekend transport service is not unattainable - particularly if some currently 'off limit' constraints are publicly identified, discussed from the perspective of the whole community, and phased in over a period if that is appropriate.

Every time you think that this Coalition government can't get any more hare-brained, hypocritical, anti-democratic and, frankly, thuggish, it sinks lower.

Regarding the latest brainwave to silence consumer boycotts, how exactly can you ban people from not buying something?

And if I, as an individual or part of a group, lobby you to not buy from a business because I don't approve of its activities or relationships, no-one has to take any notice.

As long as I'm not physically preventing purchase, I'm not forcing anyone to do anything.

So much for consumers being fully informed in a market economy, let alone their rights to free speech and association.

What's next, prosecuting Choice because it recommends against certain products or brands?

Then there's the sheer double-think and crackpottery of their crocodile tears for those poor little lambs, the banks, who now need to be protected from being bullied by their nasty wolfish shareholders, the people who actually own them.

Royal Commission? That was so yesterday. Of course, we already know that the Coalition's great shibboleth, freedom of speech, only extends so far as its own friends and supporters, having already tried to silence any oppositional advocacy with its onerous legislation directed at charities, defunding of community organisations, misusing the Electoral Commission to attack GetUp and in persecuting whistleblowers and journalists over matters of legitimate public interest.

It must be galling that citizens and community groups have found an effective way to resist its 'let 'er rip' economic model.

So the result is what the powerful do when they're losing the moral and intellectual arguments: first they lock people up in red tape and then they just lock them up.

The strategy used by the LNP to divert attention away from failed policy is nothing new. Set up an orthodoxy and proclaim that questioning it is in bad taste.

Respond to questioning by ignoring the content of the questions and instead turn to the blasphemous nature of the questioner.

Enjoy a sense of righteousness where they, being the noble defenders, are fighting the great battle of "Good versus Evil".

The orthodoxy is holy and its victory has a moral importance and quality. Define questioners as heretics, or defective, or simply out of line.

Trouble is, the public haven't fallen for it. People are losing their homes, their livelihoods and their futures. The rains aren't returning and the pattern of destruction will repeat and repeat.

The disparity between political dreams and reality is too stark to ignore. The pollies may call off rancour as usual for a time, but that doesn't change the science.

Mr Morrison is not stupid (how can he be, he's the Prime Minister of Australia, for God's sake!). Mr Morrison is not ignorant.

He knows the evidence of climate heating is irrefutable. So how to explain him denying the facts, how to explain his dogged pursuit of coal and industrial farming?

Mr Morrison understands what activists, letter writers and most scientists refuse to acknowledge. That is the simple fact that it is too late. The human species and most of the biosphere are doomed!

Because of the reinforcing feedback loops of ice melt, ocean warming, warming permafrost, increased GHGs, it would not matter if humans stopped all activity tomorrow, no more fuel extraction, no more power generation, no more manufacturing, no more industrial farming, no more anything, the climate catastrophe would not stop.

So Mr Morrison thinks "What the hey, we can't do anything, so why do anything, let's just continue as we are and not make a fuss". So settle down folks.

The temperature will rise, the insects will die, the corals will bleach, the oceans will rise, we will all die horribly. Get used to it.

A consolation is the thought that the Earth doesn't care, it will carry on circling the Sun. The universe doesn't care. It will continue to ignore the puny blue (turning black) planet.

In The Canberra Times (Thursday November 14 p 17) the short article about the flood in Venice reports that the current flood is the second highest on record after the one in 1964.

The Venetian Mayor is quoted as saying 'This is the result of climate change' with reference to the current flood.

His comment begs the obvious question, 'What caused the record flood in 1964'.

Climate change is being thrown around willy nilly as the cause of every naturally occurring event but those making these assertions are not backing them up with rigorous explanations as to how the climate has changed and how these changes have impacted on nature.

I think it's incumbent on them to do this so that we are all better informed and journalists have a critical role in ensuring this is done.

We wonder why bushfires are so very violent now days ?

Here is another piece of the puzzle to consider .

Only a century or two ago our forests were full of little burrowing animals, from bettongs to potoroos ceaselessly turning over the forest floor

They broke up water repellent crusts, buried litter and kept the microclimate moist near the ground. Each creature could turn over four or six tonne of soil and mulch per annum, controlling the build up of fire fuel .

That was billions of tons over the continent, every year. Those precious animals were wiped out by cats and foxes.

Trees keep dropping litter but there is no one home to sweep it up. And so fuel accumulates to catastrophic levels .

Some politicians feel it inappropriate to discuss such issues whilst fire fighters are operational, so the insurers should take the lead. We need a national effort to eliminate feral predators, reintroduce native burrowers and bury that fuel.

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