{"id":5056,"date":"2020-02-07T05:25:15","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T05:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5056"},"modified":"2020-02-07T05:25:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T05:25:15","slug":"greens-slam-cabinet-of-climate-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/02\/07\/greens-slam-cabinet-of-climate-criminals\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens slam cabinet of climate criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Greens have slammed Scott Morrison&#8217;s cabinet reshuffle, which further cements the climate denialism of this government.<br \/>\n<strong>Australian Greens Leader Adam Bandt MP said:<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;Moving Keith Pitt, a nuke-loving climate denier, back onto the front bench makes the intentions of this government even clearer.<br \/>\n&#8220;We are in a climate emergency but this Prime Minister shamefully thinks it&#8217;s appropriate to put on the frontbench a man who previously quit cabinet over opposition to the Paris Agreement.<br \/>\n&#8220;Appointing a nuclear advocate is a \u2018dead cat\u2019 strategy, an attempt at distraction from a Prime Minister who desperately doesn\u2019t want to talk about coal.<br \/>\n&#8220;It&#8217;s time to turf out this is government of climate criminals.&#8221;<br \/>\n<strong>Greens Spokesperson for the Environment, Water and Nuclear Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cThe cabinet reshuffle today looks like more jobs for the boys.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Prime Minister has promoted more turkeys to the Cabinet table who are there simply as lackeys of the coal and nuclear industry.<br \/>\n\u201cThe new Resources and Water Minister Keith Pitt is one of the country\u2019s most vocal opponents for global action on climate change. The PM&#8217;s promoted a bloke who wants Australia to go nuclear and build more coal.<br \/>\n\u201cThis is a disaster for the environment, the Murray-Darling Basin and puts a question mark over Scott Morrison&#8217;s intentions when it comes to nuclear power in this country.<br \/>\n\u201cThe PM must rule out any support for the further expansion of the nuclear industry in Australia. He must reassure the Australian people that there will be no new plans, money spent or suggestions coming from his government for nuclear in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Australian Greens have slammed Scott Morrison&#8217;s cabinet reshuffle, which further cements the climate denialism of this government. Australian Greens Leader Adam Bandt MP said: &#8220;Moving Keith Pitt, a nuke-loving climate denier, back onto the front bench makes the intentions of this government even clearer. &#8220;We are in a climate emergency but this Prime Minister &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/02\/07\/greens-slam-cabinet-of-climate-criminals\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens slam cabinet of climate criminals&#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-5056","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\/5056","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=5056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}