Scott Morrison has finally admitted something most Australians have known for years, Australia is becoming harder to live in, due to the increased intensity of natural disasters brought on by climate change. The once rare events of severe fires, floods and droughts have now become common place across the country. Morrison said; "We are (now) dealing with a different climate to the one we (were) dealing with before." These seem hollow words coming from a bloke who not long ago brought a lump of coal into the Parliment and declared it was the way of the future.

You would have to be very naive to believe that Morrison has changed his spots: he never had any. Morrison believes in nothing. He has form for sprouting anything that he thinks might be helpful to him, and only him. And he is not very smart, switching to the Green Labor con trick of   human-cause climate change, zero emissions etc, the very things that did for Bill Shorten at the last election - rubbish that people are sick and tired of hearing about. There are no more votes in it now than there were then.

Morrison hasn't changed at all. In fact he's displaying more about himself now than before.

His words are just a pragmatic bid for votes at a time when climate is uppermost in the minds of voters and a way of taking it off the agenda as a potential issue.

It was different when the bushfires were raging. Then it was a matter of "now is not the time to talk about fires" but this time there's an election to be considered.

It's not likely to win him more votes but there's a chance he won't lose as many if he quickly diffuses climate as an issue.

This is the same clown who said at the last election, electric cars would destroy the family weekend. EC's cost between $3 and $8 to fully charge, the average family with a gas guzzler under Morrison have to mortgage their house to fill it with petrol at $2.20lt plus some. There ain't no weekends away these days. Of course low tax Morrison still collects a whopper wind fall tax on petrol.

One of the few politicians worth a pinch of the proverbial, Kimberley Kitching has died at 52. Despite her choice of party, she had a lot of common sense.

In the meantime - while there is still time - put aside the childish waffle about climate change, accept the realities of Australian weather and don't build on flood plains or near flammable scrub.