Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, has responded to the Prime Minister\u2019s bushfire Royal commission announcement.
\n\u201cThis Royal Commission looks like a climate whitewash.\u201d
\n\u201cI\u2019m sure the Commissioners will do their best, but Scott Morrison\u2019s terms of reference are designed to skate over the climate crisis and minimise the Prime Minister\u2019s own contribution to these coal-fueled mega-fires.\u201d
\n\u201cClimate gets only some passing references, but it should be centre stage.
\n\u201cThe climate crisis isn\u2019t just one \u2018background\u2019 factor in these unprecedented mega-fires, it is the driving force.\u201d
\n\u201cThese terms of reference should have come to Parliament for approval.
\n\u201cScott Morrison has finally heard the public anger over his contribution to the fires, but he\u2019s responding with little more than lip service.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Greens Leader, Adam Bandt, has responded to the Prime Minister\u2019s bushfire Royal commission announcement. \u201cThis Royal Commission looks like a climate whitewash.\u201d \u201cI\u2019m sure the Commissioners will do their best, but Scott Morrison\u2019s terms of reference are designed to skate over the climate crisis and minimise the Prime Minister\u2019s own contribution to these coal-fueled mega-fires.\u201d … Continue reading “Royal Commission a Climate Whitewash”<\/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-5188","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\/5188","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=5188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}