Peter Dutton proposes decades of delay on climate: Federal Liberals still with no climate plan
National climate group Solutions for Climate Australia expressed extreme disappointment and concern at the Opposition Leader Peter Dutton proposing further decades of delay in tackling climate change, despite increasing climate disasters.
This follows a statement by Peter Dutton today, in an interview with The Australian, that the Federal Liberal Party wants to reject current targets and plans to reduce Australia’s climate pollution this decade.
“It is a tragedy that the Federal Liberal Party has no plan to stop the increasing climate disasters which are directly killing Australians, and damaging communities, agriculture and businesses across the country, and globally,” said Dr Barry Traill, Director of Solutions for Climate Australia.
“We need decisive action on climate pollution this decade to protect farmers, our food supply, businesses and trade. From uninsurable houses, to declining crop yields, to direct threats to life and property, we are all now being hurt by climate disasters.
“Australians voted decisively for action on climate in the 2022 election. Mr Dutton’s weak, do-nothing approach on climate is out of step with the electorate. The community showed it expects all political parties to adopt strong, science-based targets to reduce pollution.”
“The federal Coalition has not heeded the message of the nation on climate. They must do better.”
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Return to home pageWhere else but the Murdoch ratbaggery Australian.
Murdoch’s grubs and bonehead neo-Nazi shock jocks are all the Thug will talk to.
He is such a whiner, anyone who asks a question he does not like, or who reports honestly on what he says, he calls a Lefty biased loser.
He will keep this cowardly behaviour up right through to the election. Let us hope it backfires.
Potty Boy is Tone the Botty Mark Two! Tone the Botty doesn’t believe in climate change and is a Class A dickhead.
Him and his gang are entrenched like ticks in the wallets of the big end of town, particularly with fragile glass ego Gina and the rest of the miners and fossil fuel corporations. Dog help us if…urk…gag…choke…they ever get back in power.
Greenhouse gases cause a greenhouse effect????
Climate change was the greatest moral challenge, so sayeth rudd brownie agreed and then voted with the rabbott, rudd de-moralised, no DD and here we are.
The LNP leaders and their voters will dismantle the move to renewables under the disingenuous ‘lying by telling the truth’ that climate change is natural
Sofia Bettiza, BBC News: scribbles a scary tale of the political minds of the young that will encourage dutton’s mindset
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Spot on GL!!!!!(I have a flip phone that my grandchildren can ring for a pick up, thanks)
Sadly every autocuists (2, 7, 9, 10, sky), all of rupes’ zealous editors and writers produce anti-labor ‘evidence’ as too why labor should not be re-elected.
The loonies want to achieve the nats position and to achieve that end they don’t mind conning their way to labor losing,
If you live in Queensland you will have noticed an aggressive and relentless TV campaign funded by the MInerals Council opposing Royalties charged by the Qld government principally on coalmining .
The Queensland government, in the run up to the election in October, are hitting back with their own advertisements on TV and in the press pointing out that the royalties are being returned to Queenslanders in the form of concessions on the cost of living including electricity ($1000 rebate), vehicle registration (20% reduction over the next twelve months) and other family friendly areas including stamp duty on first home purchases, childcare etc.
Naturally, the LNP are saying that these community concessions are election bribes and maybe they are but what the LNP are not admitting to is the fact that they have done a deal with the coalminers to reduce or eliminate royalties and to allow new coalmining ventures.
The LNP see the Qld election as a watershed for the coalition nationally and they are throwing everything at it together with support from their mates at Newscorp and Sky and the fossil fuel lobby.
It’s going to get very dirty in the lead up to the election.
I’m afraid Terence, we’re about to find out the hard way (yet again) what it’s like to be governed by a bunch of incompetents.
The mayoral election in Tvlle is a good indication of what’s around the corner.
Dutton (what?) , Chrisafulli (who?) , this hopes-to-get-re-elected government, All Queensland, it seems, is letting the nation down, betraying world interests of a decent future and avoiding the local “threat” of common sense and an educated path forwards. Why? We can see the pernicious influence of Murdoch’s maggoty media muck and the porcus scriblus deviates who produce a line of injurious assertion, but surely enough educated common sense is there. Is it terminally squashed by greed, stupidity, careless selfishness? The only slave state, with blackbirding, Queensland is often dunceland, mediaevalland, backwardland. Attitude?
Phil, we’re also blessed with Palmer and Katter. Throw Murdoch in as well and it ain’t easy
We can only hope the voters are listening to this…………..otherwise we are screwed.
The lives of our children and grand children, if you have any, are in the hands of fossil fuel corporporations and politicians. The LNP have just displayed how they don’t care. Labor has let us down by allowing for gas to be mined.
How many bloody red flags do we need to view before real action takes place.
The speed of climate change over past epochs is a huge concern.
The temperature of oceans are becoming higher,
West Antarctica has reached a tipping point has been discussed in two recent studies.
But, these factors don’t matter provided fossil fuel corporations make their profits. Those profits have underlying factors such as death for millions of people, homes lost, infra-structure lost or highly damaged, and breakdown of the biosphere.
Useless, has not a single constructive thing for his country- sits back, sulks and disrupts.
Nope, he’s just sycophantically boot licking Gina and the rest of the miners, fossil fuel industries and assorted corporations. Like The Donald he doesn’t give a shit about the little people until the election gets ever closer.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/jun/11/australia-news-live-peter-dutton-malcolm-turnbull-anthony-albanese-nuclear-queensland-budget-cost-of-living-cameron-dick-eggs-bird-flu-ai-jobs
Just when I thought Duddy couldn’t get any more cretinous and idiotic he drops this epic piece of brainless Trump like bullshit:
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/article/2024/jun/11/liberal-coalition-2030-emissions-target-paris-agreement-2050-climate-change
I have to award a Koala stamp to newly appointed ABC Chairman, Kim Williams who has not been intimidated by the Right in commenting on matters of national importance in the capacity, not as the Chairman of the ABC, but as a concerned citizen : this is an extract from the Crikey article :
“ABC chair Kim Williams has criticised the Coalition’s approach to formulating its nuclear energy policy at a panel before making clear he was speaking as an “Australian citizen” not as a representative of the national broadcaster.
In footage seen by Crikey, Williams, speaking on a panel at Sydney’s Vivid Festival on Wednesday night, said that the Coalition’s recently spruiked nuclear policy was “absent any of the normal fabric of policy formulation”.
Williams appeared on the After The Fact panel alongside Vivid festival director Gill Minervini and IndigenousX CEO Luke Pearson at Barangaroo House. An audience member told Crikey the panel discussed “soundbite politics” as earlier that day Nationals leader David Littleproud had said that under a yet-to-be-revealed Coalition nuclear plan, nuclear reactors would be built in Nationals electorates.
At one point in the discussion moderator Tom Wright referred to the Coalition’s nuclear plan, saying “in some ways this might not be palatable but at least it’s visionary?”
Williams responded: “Look that’s an interesting point Tom, except that it’s absent any of the normal fabric of policy formulation.”
“I grew up at a time when governments published green papers, which were deliberate discussion papers, and then they published subsequent to a green paper and people responding and all the interested parties … and then they published a white paper, which is an announcement of intended government direction from which debate would follow in the Parliament, and then legislation would appear,” Williams said.
“That was the traditional process for public policy formulation, particularly on critical matters such as energy policy, I think it’s a pretty good system.
“To announce something as a sound bite, with no detail, no detail as to emissions targets — and look, I’m not being political, I’m not being in any way… speaking for the ABC. I’m speaking as an Australian citizen, and I’m entitled, like any Australian citizen, to have a view as to the necessity of good public policy in our nation.
“And [the Coalition’s nuclear plan] would seem to be absent many of the constituent elements that are absolutely core to the announcement of and execution of important policy initiatives.” ”
Well said Mr Williams !