The government must rule out drilling in the Great Australian Bight rather than passing the buck to the regulator, Greens say.
\n\u201cPressure from the overwhelming majority of South Australian\u2019s to protect the Bight must be acted on by the government,\u201d Greens Senator for South Australia Sarah Hanson-Young said.
\n\u201cSouth Australians and increasing numbers of Australians around the country want a ban on drilling in the Bight.
\n\u201cThe Morrison government is grossly mistaken if they think a tick and flick \u2018audit of the regulator\u2019 will satisfy community concerns.\u00a0It is the role of the government to represent the people and the people have made their wishes clear.
\n\u201cThis \u2018audit is nothing more than a box ticking exercise. The terms of reference are so narrow that it makes a mockery of the real concerns of tens of thousands of South Australians who remain opposed to drilling in the Bight.
\n\u201cAll MPs have the opportunity to protect the Bight by supporting my Bill to ban drilling in the Great Australian Bight. They should think long and hard about what their constituents expect of them.
\n\u201cThe Bight is home to many threatened species, and responsible for thousands and thousands of fishing and tourism jobs. It must be protected, not exploited for more dangerous fossil fuels. Anything less is not good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The government must rule out drilling in the Great Australian Bight rather than passing the buck to the regulator, Greens say. \u201cPressure from the overwhelming majority of South Australian\u2019s to protect the Bight must be acted on by the government,\u201d Greens Senator for South Australia Sarah Hanson-Young said. \u201cSouth Australians and increasing numbers of Australians … Continue reading “Great Australian Bight must be protected”<\/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-3277","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\/3277","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=3277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}