{"id":14479,"date":"2022-01-11T02:49:20","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T02:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=14479"},"modified":"2022-01-11T02:49:20","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T02:49:20","slug":"the-anti-government-morrison-government-a-recipe-for-chaos-on-covid-and-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/01\/11\/the-anti-government-morrison-government-a-recipe-for-chaos-on-covid-and-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"The anti-government Morrison government a recipe for chaos on covid and climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greens acting Leader, Nick McKim says the confusion and mismanagement of the pandemic on a Federal level is symptomatic of a Government led by people who want government to do as little as possible.<br \/>\nThe Morrison-Joyce \u2018small government\u2019 neoliberal ideology has contributed to failures on quarantine, vaccination rollout, aged care and massive pressure on state run health systems.<br \/>\nThe Greens will take a message to the election that a better resourced, better run government willing to take responsibility for programs can do more to mitigate and adapt to the twin challenges of climate and covid.<br \/>\n<strong>Greens acting leader Senator Nick McKim said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cConfusion continues around testing, vaccines for kids, aged care and isolation rules. Scott Morrison and Barnaby Joyce don\u2019t really believe in government, and it shows.<br \/>\n&#8220;The Greens know that a democratic government can be a powerful force for good, and that the Australian people are becoming increasingly sick of a government that wants to outsource every responsibility.<br \/>\n\u201cWe should make big corporations and tycoons pay their fair share of tax so we can fund government programs to respond to the challenges of Covid and climate change.<br \/>\n\u201cAustralia deserves better than people who scream about wanting no government at all, while occupying the highest offices in the government.<br \/>\n\u201cAt every turn the neoliberal ideology has stopped us from taking action, from purpose-built quarantine to domestic mRNA vaccine production. The government always claims it&#8217;s &#8216;too hard&#8217;, but really they would just ideologically prefer a corporation do it.<br \/>\n\u201cWe also need a government led response on climate. Market incentives alone are not going to move fast enough for Australia to do it\u2019s part to meet the Paris goals for a safe climate.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greens acting Leader, Nick McKim says the confusion and mismanagement of the pandemic on a Federal level is symptomatic of a Government led by people who want government to do as little as possible. The Morrison-Joyce \u2018small government\u2019 neoliberal ideology has contributed to failures on quarantine, vaccination rollout, aged care and massive pressure on state &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2022\/01\/11\/the-anti-government-morrison-government-a-recipe-for-chaos-on-covid-and-climate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The anti-government Morrison government a recipe for chaos on covid and climate&#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-14479","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\/14479","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=14479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}