Dr Richard Denniss, Chief Economist at The Australia Institute, joins Amy on Uncommon Sense to share his thoughts about the final sitting week of federal parliament for 2021. A thorough look at the year so far, Denniss breaks down the Morrison Government's focus on ideological issues and the perpetuation of culture wars. The Coalition’s legislative priorities included a religious discrimination bill, as well as crackdowns on social media trolling, and a push to prevent supposed “voter fraud”. This is all whilst paying cursory attention to critical areas such as climate change — Richard takes us through the government’s modelling and “literally meaningless” plan to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. He also talks about their controversial move to prevent parliamentary debate on a federal integrity and anti-corruption watchdog, one of their election promises. As Richard says, “the last thing Scott Morrison wants is to debate his effectiveness on what he’s delivered, based on his policies.”