Greens Acting Leader, Adam Bandt MP, has responded to Scott Morrison\u2019s speech today to the Queensland Minerals Council, saying that any attempts to crack down on protest is a threat to Australia\u2019s democracy.
\n\u201cScott Morrison is a direct threat to Australian democracy and freedom of speech,\u201d said Mr Bandt.
\n\u201cThe Prime Minister\u2019s commitment to outlaw the peaceful, legal protest of Australian individuals and community groups reads like a move straight from the totalitarian\u2019s playbook.
\n\u201cInstead of getting tough on the climate crisis, Scott Morrison is dismantling democracy.
\n\u201cPeople are taking action because Scott Morrison\u2019s is making the climate crisis worse, but instead of heeding the message, he\u2019s shooting the messenger.
\n\u201cThe Greens will fight tooth and nail against any move to make it harder for Australians to have their voices heard and take action to solve the climate crisis.
\n\u201cUntil Scott Morrison starts cutting pollution and keeping coal in the ground, protests will keep growing.
\n\u201cWe have one simple message for Scott Morrison today: you can\u2019t arrest your way out of the climate emergency.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Greens Acting Leader, Adam Bandt MP, has responded to Scott Morrison\u2019s speech today to the Queensland Minerals Council, saying that any attempts to crack down on protest is a threat to Australia\u2019s democracy. \u201cScott Morrison is a direct threat to Australian democracy and freedom of speech,\u201d said Mr Bandt. \u201cThe Prime Minister\u2019s commitment to outlaw … Continue reading “Bandt Slams Morrison Protest Crackdown”<\/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-4110","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\/4110","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=4110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}