As the South Australian algal bloom continues to wreak havoc on South Australia’s coast, the Greens are today calling on the Prime Minister and Premier Malinauskas to intervene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, Senator for South Australia and Greens spokesperson for the environment said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n “The Prime Minister and South Australian Premier should meet to coordinate a full national response to the algal bloom catastrophe engulfing South Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “This is an environmental catastrophe, an economic calamity and increasingly a community health emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “We need a COVID-19 style rescue package to provide urgent support for the community, massive increased environmental monitoring, and we need action against fossil fuels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “Instead we have the federal government saying it\u2019s a state issue, and we have the SA government dragging its feet in asking for federal help. It\u2019s past time that the Prime Minster and the Premier sort this out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “This is a national climate catastrophe and it requires a commensurate response. Instead we have state and federal governments bureaucratic buck passing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “A COVID-19 style rescue package means support for the affected industries, community and local councils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “I urge the Prime Minister and Mr. Malinauskas to avoid this becoming their \u201cI don\u2019t\u2019 hold a hose\u201d moment.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As the South Australian algal bloom continues to wreak havoc on South Australia’s coast, the Greens are today calling on the Prime Minister and Premier Malinauskas to intervene. Senator Sarah Hanson-Young, Senator for South Australia and Greens spokesperson for the environment said: “The Prime Minister and South Australian Premier should meet to coordinate a full … Continue reading “Prime Minister and Premier Malinauskas Must Intervene in South Australian Algal Bloom Crisis”<\/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-33779","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\/33779","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=33779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33780,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33779\/revisions\/33780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}