{"id":13861,"date":"2021-11-16T03:00:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T03:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=13861"},"modified":"2021-11-16T03:00:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T03:00:48","slug":"greens-use-barnaby-to-step-up-campaigns-against-inner-city-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/greens-use-barnaby-to-step-up-campaigns-against-inner-city-liberals\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens use Barnaby to step up campaigns against inner city Liberals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Barnaby Joyce and Matt Canavan call for more coal before the ink on the Glasgow Climate Pact is even dry, the Greens have begun hitting the streets in target inner-city Liberal seats like Ryan, Brisbane, Kooyong and Higgins to unseat incumbents by reminding them that if you vote Liberal, you get Barnaby.<br \/>\nAppearing on Afternoon Briefing yesterday, Joyce claimed that despite being Deputy Prime Minister, he had apparently not agreed to the Cop26 Pact which Australia is signatory, and derided Alok Sharma and other Cop26 attendees as just wanting \u201cto get on television\u201d. Matt Canavan said that Glasgow is a \u201cgreen light for coal\u201d despite Australia being urged by the Pact to return to Cop27 with stronger emissions targets.<br \/>\n<strong>Greens Leader Adam Bandt MP said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cA vote for the Liberals is a vote for Barnaby Joyce setting climate policy.<br \/>\n\u201cA vote for even \u2018moderate\u2019 Liberals still gives Barnaby the power to push us beyond the point of climate no-return.<br \/>\n\u201cThere\u2019s no way around the equation: vote Liberal, get Barnaby.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Greens are hitting the streets and the billboards are going up, reminding voters that if you vote Liberal, you get Barnaby.<br \/>\n\u201cThe price of the Nationals\u2019 climate deal is becoming clearer by the day: more coal and no lifting of Australia\u2019s woeful 2030 targets.<br \/>\n\u201cLiberal moderates will never have the kingmaker power of the Nationals.<br \/>\n\u201cAustralia\u2019s climate policy under the Liberals will be set by Barnaby \u201cwon\u2019t be bullied by science\u201d Joyce and Matt \u201ca cold snap means climate change isn\u2019t real\u201d Canavan.<br \/>\n&#8220;This time, voters in inner-city seats can send the Liberals a powerful message about climate by voting Greens.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Barnaby Joyce and Matt Canavan call for more coal before the ink on the Glasgow Climate Pact is even dry, the Greens have begun hitting the streets in target inner-city Liberal seats like Ryan, Brisbane, Kooyong and Higgins to unseat incumbents by reminding them that if you vote Liberal, you get Barnaby. Appearing on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/11\/16\/greens-use-barnaby-to-step-up-campaigns-against-inner-city-liberals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens use Barnaby to step up campaigns against inner city Liberals&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}