{"id":5319,"date":"2020-03-02T05:49:36","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T05:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=5319"},"modified":"2020-03-02T05:49:36","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T05:49:36","slug":"bandt-wants-war-cabinet-to-tackle-the-climate-emergency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/03\/02\/bandt-wants-war-cabinet-to-tackle-the-climate-emergency\/","title":{"rendered":"Bandt wants \u2018war-cabinet\u2019 to tackle the climate emergency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greens Leader Adam Bandt will introduce a Bill into the House of Representatives this morning, seconded by the Member for Waringah Zali Steggall OAM, to formally declare a climate emergency, require every government department to be guided by the declaration and mandate the establishment of a \u2018war cabinet\u2019 to tackle the crisis.<br \/>\nMr Bandt announced the Bill to a crowd over 2000 when opening the recent National Climate Emergency Summit.<br \/>\n<strong>Comment by Greens Leader Adam Bandt MP:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cWe are in a climate emergency. It\u2019s time for Parliament to recognise the crisis and take urgent action.<br \/>\n\u201cThis Bill reflects the scale of the crisis we face and represents the scale of action that is needed.<br \/>\n\u201cWinston Churchill was a flawed man and flawed Prime Minister, but in his greatest hours he reached across the aisle during WWII and formed a grand coalition, with the Labour party and others. That is what I am asking of Scott Morrison today.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Prime Minister must be a climate Churchill, not a climate Chamberlain.<br \/>\n\u201cIn October, I moved a motion for Parliament to declare a climate emergency and we fell just four votes short. We\u2019ve just had a summer of complete climate devastation and it\u2019s time for the Parliament to recognise the situation we face, join me in declaring a climate emergency and establish a \u2018war-cabinet\u2019 to take urgent action.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s time for members of the Liberal Party, especially those that have called for climate action, to vote with their conscience and back this Bill.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greens Leader Adam Bandt will introduce a Bill into the House of Representatives this morning, seconded by the Member for Waringah Zali Steggall OAM, to formally declare a climate emergency, require every government department to be guided by the declaration and mandate the establishment of a \u2018war cabinet\u2019 to tackle the crisis. Mr Bandt announced &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2020\/03\/02\/bandt-wants-war-cabinet-to-tackle-the-climate-emergency\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bandt wants \u2018war-cabinet\u2019 to tackle the climate emergency&#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-5319","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\/5319","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=5319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}