The Labor and Liberal parties have refused to support including the impacts of climate change in the flawed Murray Darling Basin Plan in the Senate today.
\n\u201cLabor says they\u2019re taking climate change seriously, but they refuse to acknowledge it affects the Murray Darling Basin,\u201d Greens water spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said.
\n\u201cA party that takes climate change seriously does not side with an anti-science, climate denying Government to sell out the Murray.
\n\u201cThe Murray Darling Basin Plan is in tatters. It has been rife with corruption, water theft, and the simple fact it does not account for climate change proves it was set up to fail.
\n\u201cSouth Australians know too well how important the Murray is to our state; to our drinking water, our environments, and our communities.
\n\u201cWe are experiencing climate change right here, right now. Our country is becoming drier and hotter and our river needs protecting. The major parties continue to turn their backs on South Australians who want a strong, healthy river.\u201d
\nLabor voted with the Morrison Government against Senator Hanson-Young\u2019s below motion:
\nThat the Senate\u2014 notes that<\/p>\n
Calls on the government to take the threat of climate change seriously and include the impacts of climate change within The Plan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Labor and Liberal parties have refused to support including the impacts of climate change in the flawed Murray Darling Basin Plan in the Senate today. \u201cLabor says they\u2019re taking climate change seriously, but they refuse to acknowledge it affects the Murray Darling Basin,\u201d Greens water spokesperson Senator Sarah Hanson-Young said. \u201cA party that takes … Continue reading “Greens say Major parties ignore climate change impacts on the Murray”<\/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-927","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\/927","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=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}