David Littleproud is a climate change denier and is not fit to serve as minister\u00a0for water resources, drought, natural disaster and emergency management. He must resign as minister and, if he will not, then the Prime Minister must intervene and remove him, said Leader of the Australian Greens Dr Richard Di Natale.
\n\u201dDavid Littleproud has admitted that he does not believe the accepted science that human action is driving climate change, so how can he possibly be responsible for oversight of\u00a0the water resources, drought, natural disaster and emergency management\u00a0portfolios,\u201d Di Natale said.
\n\u201cThat\u2019s why the Greens are calling on Minister Littleproud to do the right thing and immediately resign from the front bench so that he can be replaced with someone who understands the science of climate change. If he refuses to do so, then Scott Morrison must stand him down.\u201d
\n\u201dIf Scott Morrison won\u2019t remove Minister Littleproud from the front bench now that it\u2019s clear he doesn\u2019t believe the overwhelming scientific evidence that man made climate change is real, then the public would have no choice but to assume that the Prime Minister agrees with his position.\u201d
\n\u201cThe Minister responsible for managing the Nation\u2019s water doesn\u2019t even accept the most basic climate science \u2013 he\u2019s not up to the job,\u201d said Greens Water Spokesperson Sen Sarah Hanson-Young.
\n\u201cKeeping David Littleproud as Water Minister puts the Murray-Darling and our Nation\u2019s foodbowl in danger.\u201d
\n\u201cThe Prime Minister needs to call time on the Nats reign over the country\u2019s biggest river system, end over extraction by big corporate irrigators, and establish a Royal Commission to start cleaning this mess up,\u201d Hanson-Young said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
David Littleproud is a climate change denier and is not fit to serve as minister\u00a0for water resources, drought, natural disaster and emergency management. He must resign as minister and, if he will not, then the Prime Minister must intervene and remove him, said Leader of the Australian Greens Dr Richard Di Natale. \u201dDavid Littleproud has … Continue reading “Littleproud must resign as Minister: Greens”<\/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-3655","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\/3655","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=3655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}