Death count has been re-estimated to be closer to 2,500, but still pretty bad, and likely to get worse. Hundreds of thousands are without food, water and shelter, there has been reports of looting what food stores remain and conditions are set for disease. Things looking pretty bad. I've seen a short piece run about a US military aircraft landing and how it isn't carrying aid, instead is just taking their citizens home in a blatant display of 'Lolmerica is so evil!', pretty rich when they are offering thirty times the aid we are. Anyhoo...
In local news, PARLIAMENT IS OPEN! The law season is on!
In the first thirty minutes Labor questioned Morrison in regards to his secrecy about asylum seekers... So the Coalition, MP Morrison included, voted to gag himself. Pretty nice when you can vote to not have to be accountable! But I'm sure that will be drowned out from what came after. The new speaker for the house made a lot of talk yesterday about acting in a respectful manner and using proper titles, in fact just yesterday Abbott said that the phrase 'Electricity Bill Shorten', basically linking Bill Shorten to higher electricity prices due to the carbon tax, would be unacceptable. Yet today the god damned Leader of the House, Pyne, used that exact term and it was deemed fine. Remember kids, it is only disrespectful when you don't have the numbers! Palmer was absent, but who cares? His vote doesn't really matter anyway.