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Roberts’ Senators given in to the globalist and socialist UN. Shame on you all

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Roberts’ Senators given in to the globalist and socialist UN. Shame on you all

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Senator Malcolm Roberts Senate Speech Matter of Public Importance Climate Change  I compliment Senator Siewert for asking the government for a full costing of its climate action policies. And we ask that the Labor Party and the Greens cost their own climate policies, which call for Australia to be net-zero carbon dioxide by 2050 and banning hydrocarbon energy generation accordingly. The real question that we need answered is what will be the change in the global temperature if these policies are fully implemented? Where is the cost-benefit analysis? The role of this parliament and this government, opposition and other parties is not to have a bidding war on who can outspend the other for votes or to virtue signal to the elites and the media. Our role in this place is to ensure good governance for our citizens economically, socially and environmentally.


So what will occur from the government’s 26 to 28 per cent Renewable Energy Target, spending billions subsidising renewable energy? What about Labor’s net-zero carbon dioxide in 2050, or the Greens’ plans to stop—wait for this—all hydrocarbon power generation? I know what they won’t do: they won’t change the global temperature. It won’t affect bushfires, sea level rises, cyclones, droughts, floods, ocean temperature or any other natural weather event. Australia only accounts for 1.7 per cent of human global CO2 output. Cutting our output to zero cannot change the global temperature. Even our Chief Scientist was courageous enough to admit this inconvenient fact in Senate estimates on 1 June 2017. Climate policies are already killing our competitiveness and driving our manufacturing and heavy industries into the arms of China, who have no intention of limiting their carbon dioxide output.


We have been suckered into giving away our strong economy because you lot here are too gutless to stick up for Australia and protect our way of life. You have given in to globalist rent-seekers and the socialist United Nations, who you glibly obey without a second thought on how you are hurting your own country. Shame; shame on you all!


To Australians listening to this speech let me explain to you what reducing our carbon dioxide output to zero will really mean to you: no livestock industry, no heavy transport, no manufacturing, no rail services, no private transport, no flying, no air conditioning or heating and the list goes on. Who would wish for such a horrible future for our country? The Liberals, Nationals, Labor and the Greens are all following the same path. Climate policies are not about controlling climate; they are about controlling us. A nation that cannot support itself turns to government for help. Once the people are dependent on the government they control us. One Nation wants less government—not more. One Nation wants to liberate Australians from government control and unleash our potential. One Nation will set us free.

Molan, The Greens (Climate Trigger) Bill 2020, is not a workable

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Molan, The Greens (Climate Trigger) Bill 2020, is not a workable

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Senator Jim Molan BILLS – Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Climate Trigger) Bill 2020: Senator McAllister says that this bill, the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Climate Trigger) Bill 2020, is not a workable strategy being put up by the Greens, who are into the moral absolutism of climate wars. This is something which makes great sense to me. We have a situation where we on this side of the parliament are criticised for the simple fact that it is perceived that we are broken. We are not broken. Every time I hear dysfunctional talk of a dysfunctional group, I think of the Otis group on coal and of the coal documents of 2016 which are in the media at the moment.


Certainly, as the Greens and the member for Warringah are aware but continually deny, we in the coalition are acting on climate change now. We don’t just talk; we don’t sit back and debate irrational triggers. We are well past that. I personally am strongly committed not only to acting on climate change but also to adapting to a hotter, drier climate. Both are important. Unlike the Greens and the member for Warringah, we put the focus on mitigating risk and adapting rather than on taking a closed-mind, ideological view and mouthing naive, uncosted, feel-good statements, backed up in certain circumstances by bullying and abuse.


Net zero emissions, mentioned by Senator McAllister, need to be justified and costed, not just mouthed. There is no economic case to do so, and the reduction in emissions, if it occurs, could have no impact on the world climate. Let’s not forget that China has somewhere between 1,032 and 2,400 coal-fired power stations and is building 126 more. Japan has 90 coal-fired power stations and is building somewhere between 22 and 45 more, depending on the source.


At the last election, the government took a clear plan to the Australian people to responsibly reduce Australia’s carbon dioxide emissions, consistent with our international commitments. We as a government remain committed to this plan. I personally remain committed to this policy as a prudent policy and I know that reducing emissions will be accompanied by rock-solid policies to adapt to a hotter and a drier continent. This government-led Australia to beat its first Kyoto target by 128 million tonnes. We’re projected to beat our 2020 target by 411 million tonnes. Our 2030 Paris target reduces emissions by 26 to 28 per cent, on 2005 levels, by 2030. Over this period we will halve the amount of emissions per Australian. On a per-capita basis, our emissions reductions will be greater than those of many comparable countries, including the European Union, Canada, Japan and Korea.


This is an ambitious but responsible emissions reduction target for 2030. We will meet it and we intend to beat it. The latest emission projections already show we are on track to do so. We do not need triggers. But, as you quite well know but are ignoring because it doesn’t match certain ideologies, Australia cannot cut global emissions in isolation. The development and deployment of new technologies will be essential to reducing emissions, both here and around the world, while creating jobs. Our focus is on improving existing technologies and adopting new technologies, not taxes. We do not support the introduction of a carbon tax. We do not support driving up electricity prices and we do not support plans that will abandon the jobs of many regional Australians and make emissions reductions unsustainable.


That’s why, working closely with industry, researchers and international partners, we are developing a technology investment road map, to focus our investment on driving down the cost of low-emissions technology, as recently forecast by Minister Taylor. It will also guide us as we seek to deploy new technology as rapidly as possible, to reduce emissions both at home and overseas. That road map will position Australia to contribute to and take advantage of global technologies. It will set a framework for our investment in emissions-reducing technologies over the short period, to 2022; the medium period, to 2030; and the long term, to 2050. This builds on what we’re already doing to drive down emissions, including the $10 billion Clean Energy Finance Corporation, which brings down the cost of renewable energy; the $1 billion Grid Reliability Fund, to promote investment in battery and pumped hydro renewable energy storage; our $500 million hydrogen strategy, to position us as a key player in the emerging green hydrogen economy; and our soon-to-be-released electric vehicles strategy, to accelerate the modernisation of our transport fleet.


Let me summarise by saying that Australia’s emissions are coming down. In fact, Australia’s emissions are lower now than when the coalition came to government in 2013. Australia’s emissions are more than 12 per cent lower than in 2005. This compares to a two per cent reduction for Canada and a four per cent increase for New Zealand over the same period. Let’s mitigate risk. Where risks cannot be mitigated, we must adapt. Those impacted by the recent bushfires want practical measures and not the mouthing of ideologies.

McKim, Greens have a fully costed to drive Australia’s emissions down

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McKim, Greens have a fully costed to drive Australia’s emissions down

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Senator Nick McKim Matter of Public Importance Climate Change Chamber Senate: McKim: As I was saying, this evening we had Senator Canavan and Senator Ayres erect some of the biggest straw men I have seen in my time in politics. I’m not going to waste the very short time I have to make this speech in demolishing every single straw man that they put up, but I will say to Senator Ayres: the Greens have a fully costed set of policies that clearly lay out a pathway to drive Australia’s emissions down in line with what the climate science is telling us, which is that we need to start reducing our emissions now, not at some indeterminate time in the future, as proposed by the Labor Party.


Senator Canavan said that we didn’t cost our policies. Every single policy that we took to the last election was costed in the independent rigorous process of the Parliamentary Budget Office. He shouldn’t mislead Australians about what we put before them at the last election. We will again have a rigorously costed policy framework as we approach the next election. Our policies will be in line with what the climate science is telling us.


With a 2050 target, Labor are walking away from Australia’s Paris commitment. Labor’s policy has us on a pathway for three degrees of global warming. The reason they’re doing that is that they’re run by the coal huggers in the Labor Party. Senator Ayres is a classic example of a coal hugger who is standing in the way of strong climate action within the Labor Party. You wouldn’t think it was possible to have an even worse set of climate policies than the Labor Party’s, but the Liberal Party have been bought out by their corporate mates in the fossil fuel sector.


One thing we can categorically state in regard to the cost of reducing emissions is that the longer we leave it the more expensive it will get. The other thing we can categorically state about the costs of reducing emissions is that the cost of not acting to reduce our emissions will be far greater than the costs of acting. The science is abundantly clear. We need to take strong action to reduce our emissions now.


The whole framing of this debate, which has been driven by many in the media—News Corp and many other media outlets, including, disappointingly, some in the ABC—is most unhelpful. The framing is not honest, because there are significant opportunities available for this country to become a global leader in responding to climate change. They including renewable energy generation. They include the hydrogen economy, which, by the way, will only stack up in emissions terms if the hydrogen is created using renewable energy rather than fossil fuel energy. There are major job opportunities available. The Greens have laid out those opportunities, and we will lay them out in our Green New Deal, a historic program for significant public investment in the transition so we can look after people in affected communities. I’m not talking about turning coalminers into baristas here. We are talking about genuine opportunities in manufacturing, in energy generation and in rewilding and reforesting, which is what the science is telling us we need to do to take action to meet Paris targets and to drive global emissions down.


This whole debate is a furphy regardless, because history will show you that even the Treasury department can’t get their budget forecasts right, even for six months into the future. And yet this government comes up and expects people to cost things over the coming decades. It’s a crock, this debate. What we should be focusing on is taking advantage of the opportunities and making sure we support our people through the inevitable transition, because it’s going to come whether we like it or not. The sooner we get with the program, the more opportunities there will be for the transition and the fewer costs there will be to our community.

Dry Anne Aly (Cowan) Private Business Gender Senate Speech

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Dry Anne Aly (Cowan) Private Business Gender Senate Speech

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Dr Anne Aly (Cowan) Private Business Gender Senate Speech: I start by commending the member for Newcastle for bringing to the House’s attention International Women’s Day on 8 March and the theme for this year: each for equal. I would like to take this opportunity to broaden the lens a bit on International Women’s Day and draw attention to the fact that a singular focus on gender, as well-meaning as it is, inadvertently excludes some women. The fact is that women’s rights have not always worked for all women. When women first got the vote, not all women were allowed to vote. We had to fight for that. When women first entered the workforce, not all women entered the workforce. We had to fight for that. The gender pay gap in the US—a Hispanic woman or an African-American woman is likely to earn less than other women. While we don’t have the statistics here for Australia, I’m sure that the gender gap for women of colour is much bigger than the gender gap for other women. We have the incarceration rates for Indigenous First Nations women here in Australia as well.


There is also the fact that women of colour and women from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds are underrepresented here in parliament as well as in other forms of leadership. If women are gravely underrepresented in the corridors of power and the corridors of leadership, as the two previous speakers pointed out, then they are even more absent if they are women of colour, or women with a disability, or women with a disability and women of colour. If the odds are stacked against women then they are piled high to the ceiling for minority women. What we need is an equality framework that works for all women, that takes into account the intersection of gender, race, ethnicity, religion and disability, that recognises the double sometimes triple disadvantage of being not just female but black and female, ethnic and female, disabled and female—a minority within a minority and sometimes within a minority again.


Equal rights for women will only work if they work for all women and if no woman is left behind. I reiterate that sometimes when we focus singularly on gender, we inadvertently forget minority women. They’re added on as a postscript or as an afterthought to policies that we have about women. I’ve been and will continue to be very vocal about the fact that women’s rights don’t work unless they work for minority women and unless they’re inclusive of all women. The fact is that we won’t achieve true gender equality until the most marginalised among us can share in the success. We cannot celebrate women’s success if not every woman can celebrate with us. The measure of our moral code is to be found in how we treat our most vulnerable. While we must keep an eye to where we’ve come from and the fact that we have made huge strides as women, collectively, we must also keep an eye to the future and continue to agitate for more change. But we can’t continue to do so at the expense of women who are yet to experience the wins, the rights and the equality that a lot of other women enjoy.


On a final note, I would like to make a particular reference to violence against women, which is mentioned in this motion. I’ve spoken about this in parliament before. I’ve shared my personal story before. I want to make sure that we continue this conversation. I want to make sure that every time we speak about women and about policies for women and about equal rights for women we talk about violence against women, we talk about family and domestic violence and we get this message out to every home, to every living room, to every street in every suburb and to every community across Australia, because the fact is that we’re failing on this. The fact is that we’re failing to prevent domestic and family violence in the home and, as leaders, we need to take a stand on this. I’ll be speaking about it as much as I can.

Hanson Young Norwegian oil company pulls the Pin on Oil Exploration in the Bight

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Hanson Young Norwegian oil company pulls the Pin on Oil Exploration in the Bight

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Senator Hanson-Young Oil Exploration (South Australia): I move: That the Senate—(a) notes that:

 (i) Norwegian oil company Equinor has announced it is discontinuing its exploration drilling plans in the Great Australian Bight,

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Waters, 3 Million Aussies live in Poverty on Newstart

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Waters, 3 Million Aussies live in Poverty on Newstart

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Senator Larissa Water Pension and Benefits Senate Speech (Queensland—Leader of the Australian Greens): I rise to speak on the motion of my outstanding colleague, Senator Siewert, who’s been campaigning on issues of raising Newstart and looking after ordinary Australians for as long as she’s been drawing breath—certainly as long as she’s been in this place. Today we’ve asked the parliament to spend time debating the low rate of Newstart and the insufficient rate of disaster payments, which don’t meet people’s needs and can exacerbate the difficult circumstances that people are experiencing in the face of bushfires and the drought. We’re calling on the federal government to immediately raise the rate of Newstart by at least $95 a week and to raise the disaster recovery payment to $3,000 per adult and $1,000 per child.


The context for us continuing to bring these issues forward is what we’ve just seen wreaked upon our nation over the summer and what many parts of the east coast are still experiencing now that the fires have turned into floods. I’m getting constant weather updates for rivers near my house as well, so this is real for each and every one of us in this chamber, just as it is real for the people out there. The context here is that people who have just lost their homes—we know 3,000 people and counting have now lost their homes in these devastating fires—have reached out to their government for support, and in many cases, they’re still waiting. The delays in accessing the disaster recovery support and the inadequacy of that payment when it does eventually come through are just adding insult to injury.


It brings to mind the Prime Minister’s visit to a number of bushfire ravaged communities. Cobargo is, of course, the most well-known example. The Prime Minister didn’t bring any supplies to that community. He rocked up and tried to force people to shake his hand. He wasn’t offering any kind of solution to the climate crisis that’s driving these natural disaster events, which we’re seeing getting worse and more frequent. He wasn’t offering any solution to help prevent the problem, and he wasn’t offering any more funding to help people recover. This meagre payment, which hasn’t had a rise since 2006, is too small, and it’s taking forever to actually reach the people that need it.


We know that that was the situation all summer, and this is exactly why we’ve been supporting the calls to increase that disaster recovery payment. At the moment it’s a one-off payment. It’s $1,000 for adults and $400 for children who’ve been adversely affected by a major disaster. It’s been at that level since 2006, and that is not enough money. If you’ve just lost your home, you’re having to pay to rent somewhere else to stay if you don’t have friends that you can couch-surf with. You’re having to pay all of the ordinary daily expenses, such as sending your kids to school, putting food on the table and getting around the place. You have this additional accommodation expense and, moreover, you’ve just lost all your belongings and the very roof over your head. A thousand bucks is not enough. We strongly support the call to increase that payment to $3,000 for adults and to $1,000 for children.


I note that the Prime Minister kind of implicitly acknowledged that the amounts were too small, because he did, in fact, say that the payment for kids would go up by $400. So that’s a welcome acknowledgement, but it’s still not enough, and he really needs to listen to those communities when he visits them and hear the desperate need and then use his power, as the Prime Minister, to do something about it and to provide the help and support that those communities and those people desperately need in the wake of these disasters—and take climate action while he’s at it.


It didn’t escape anybody’s notice that there was a wonderful coming together of the Australian spirit and that people were getting behind fundraising efforts. In particular, one of my favourite comedians, Celeste Barber, has raised more money for bushfire victims than this government. That is an embarrassment. Good on her—she’s fabulous and she’s done wonderful work and she’s now helping people—but this government is letting people down.


Senator Larissa Waters:  As I was saying, the rate of Newstart is pitifully low. When you work it out, it’s $40 a day. We here at this level of government have been talking about this for many years. In fact, oft times government ministers are asked if they could live on $40 a day. Many of their responses have been very unedifying and, frankly, very telling of the fact that they’ve clearly never had to live on $40 a day. They’ve somehow maintained they could probably do it. Nobody can survive on $40 a day. On the stories that we have heard throughout this whole campaign, that we hear from real people and that Senator McCarthy gave voice to: people are choosing between buying textbooks for their kids and eating dinner. Nobody should have to make that choice.


Here is a government that just dished out $158 billion in tax cuts to the very wealthy and to big business, and they don’t even have the decency to raise Newstart by $95 for the three million Australians who are forced to live on it. They claim it’s a transitional payment. Wouldn’t it be lovely if it was, although it would still be too low. But it’s not a transitional payment, because the average time that people languish on Newstart is three years—three years of living on $40 a day. This government is condemning three million Australians to continue to live in poverty while it dishes out massive tax cuts to the very wealthy and to big corporates. Is it any wonder that trust in government is bottoming out. It’s democracy for sale, and people, once again, are at the bottom of the list.


We’re backing the call to increase Newstart. What’s really clear is that it continues to fall on deaf ears. We just heard government senators make a contribution to this debate. They trotted out that often-used refrain: ‘It’s not just Newstart. People get other payments as well.’ My colleague Senator Siewert reminded me that the most common payment that accompanies Newstart is the energy supplement, and do you know how much that supplements? Four bucks a week. And this government is trying to say that somehow that’s enough, that that means we don’t need to increase Newstart. Please! The entitlement of this government is almost too much to be believed.


We’ve got a flailing economy. If you want stimulus, stop looking at the RBA to do the heavy lifting for you and increase Newstart. People who are living below the poverty line—the three million Australians who are languishing on Newstart for an average of three years—will spend that increase because they cannot afford to meet the basics of life as it is. If you want stimulus and you want a stimulus that actually helps people, there is no better way than increasing Newstart. ACOSS is saying so, the business community is saying so, and some of your own backbenchers are saying so. It’s kind of ironic because normally you’d take your orders from big business but you’re ignoring them on this call. What a shame. We’d actually like you to listen to them on this front.


The other refrain that we often hear from the government is that you’ve got to have a go-to get a go and that somehow it’s the fault of people on Newstart that they can’t find a job. Maybe they don’t want a job or they’re too lazy. There are more people seeking work than there are jobs available in the job market at the minute under this government’s watch. This is a situation of the government’s making that they continue to not fix. The Anglicare figure that’s often cited is that there are 19 people going for any one job. Many people on Newstart want to work; they’re desperate to work. They can’t afford the money for the outfit to go to the job interview or the train fare for the petrol to get to the interview. If they can somehow manage to scrimp and save to pull that together, they’re then up against 18 other people for that job. And this government continues to blame people who are on Newstart as if it’s somehow those people’s fault. It is not. This is a systemic failure that is being perpetrated and perpetuated by this government. Everybody can see that. I hope the government knows that everybody can see that.


We have the solution: stop telling people to have a go-to get a go and just lift Newstart and create jobs. Invest in infrastructures like schools and hospitals and clean energy that can make peoples’ lives easier and create employment. And address the climate crisis. It’s not rocket science, folks. It’s not all going out to lunch with lobbyists and then handing out big business tax cuts. You’re actually meant to be here to improve peoples’ lives, and there are some fairly simple ways of doing that. You have many experts and advocates making these suggestions to you on a regular basis, but you can’t see the evidence—or the climate science for that matter—because the money from the vested interests is clouding your judgement. It’s completely embarrassing.



This is why we here at the Greens are strongly backing ACOSS’s continued campaign for increasing Newstart by at least $95 a week. People should not have to choose between textbooks for their children and putting food on the table when this government instead dishes out massive big business tax cuts and tax cuts to the very wealthy and a quarter of a million dollars for sporting clubs that councils don’t want. The priorities of this government are so clear. People have had enough, and they actually deserve a democracy that works for them. They deserve decisions that can improve their lives, help restore trust and confidence in our institution of government. Just actually do the job that you were elected to do: represent people, help improve their lives, help protect the planet, act on the climate science, invest in schools and hospitals and clean energy and stop worrying about the job that you’re going to go for once you leave parliament.


 

Chamber:: Senate on 13/02/2020 Item MOTIONS – Pensions and Benefits. Speaker: Senator Larisa Waters
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Roberts unleashes on Senators who have given in to globalist and the socialist UN

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Roberts unleashes on Senators who have given in to globalist and the socialist UN

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Senator Malcolm Roberts Matter of Public Importance Climate Change:  I compliment Senator Siewert for asking the government for a full costing of its climate action policies. And we ask that the Labor Party and the Greens cost their own climate policies, which call for Australia to be net-zero carbon dioxide by 2050 and banning hydrocarbon energy generation accordingly. The real question that we need answered is what will be the change in the global temperature if these policies are fully implemented? Where is the cost-benefit analysis? The role of this parliament and this government, opposition and other parties is not to have a bidding war on who can outspend the other for votes or to virtue signal to the elites and the media. Our role in this place is to ensure good governance for our citizens economically, socially and environmentally.



So what will occur from the government’s 26 to 28 per cent Renewable Energy Target, spending billions subsidising renewable energy? What about Labor’s net-zero carbon dioxide in 2050, or the Greens’ plans to stop—wait for this—all hydrocarbon power generation? I know what they won’t do: they won’t change the global temperature. It won’t affect bushfires, sea level rises, cyclones, droughts, floods, ocean temperature or any other natural weather event. Australia only accounts for 1.7 per cent of human global CO2 output. Cutting our output to zero cannot change the global temperature. Even our Chief Scientist was courageous enough to admit this inconvenient fact in Senate estimates on 1 June 2017. Climate policies are already killing our competitiveness and driving our manufacturing and heavy industries into the arms of China, who have no intention of limiting their carbon dioxide output.


We have been suckered into giving away our strong economy because you lot here are too gutless to stick up for Australia and protect our way of life. You have given in to globalist rent-seekers and the socialist United Nations, who you glibly obey without a second thought on how you are hurting your own country. Shame; shame on you all!


To Australians listening to this speech let me explain to you what reducing our carbon dioxide output to zero will really mean to you: no livestock industry, no heavy transport, no manufacturing, no rail services, no private transport, no flying, no air conditioning or heating and the list goes on. Who would wish for such a horrible future for our country? The Liberals, Nationals, Labor and the Greens are all following the same path. Climate policies are not about controlling climate; they are about controlling us. A nation that cannot support itself turns to government for help. Once the people are dependent on the government they control us. One Nation wants less government—not more. One Nation wants to liberate Australians from government control and unleash our potential. One Nation will set us free.


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Faruqi, We are in a climate emergency government are sitting on their hands

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Faruqi, We are in a climate emergency government are sitting on their hands

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Senator Mehreen Faruqi: Matter of Public Importance-Climate Change. (New South Wales): We are in a climate emergency, and those in the government are sitting on their hands, hands which are stained with the dirty donations from the fossil fuel lobby. The Liberals’ lack of action has us fully on track for 3.4 degrees of warming, which will have catastrophic consequences. History will remember you as the cowards who did nothing in a climate emergency. History will remember you as villains who blocked international action on climate. And history will remember you as the dishonest government who knew the signs and chose not to act to save the planet.


School kids have shown incredible courage by marching in the tens of thousands to demand action. It’s because they want a fighting chance for a future where not every summer is marked by severe bushfires, where they can breathe without masks, where they can enjoy nature. There are no two ways about this: scientists have this week warned that both Liberal and Labor Party policies fall dangerously short of the action that we actually need. Labor’s target of zero net emissions by 2050 puts us on track to blow the Paris budget.


We need to front-end our emissions reductions. Labor haven’t outlined any plans to cut pollution. We need action now. Scientists tell us that, if we are to keep our planet habitable, there should be no new fossil fuel developments for domestic use or for export. Quitting coal, oil and gas is the real test on which Labor and Liberals have failed time and again, and they have failed miserably. Our actions in the next few years will define what the world looks like in the next 50 years. The absolute lack of any leadership from the Liberals and Labor will not save us in this climate emergency.


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Hanson-Young: Our planet is sick and Mother Nature is crying out for our help

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Hanson-Young: Our planet is sick and Mother Nature is crying out for our help
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Senator Hanson-Young Speech on the Australian Fires: I rise today to give a contribution on this condolence motion and of course associate myself with comments by many in this place in relation to just what a devastating summer we have had—the numbers of people who have lost homes, have lost property, have lost livelihoods; individuals who have so terribly, sadly, lost their lives as a result of these terrible fires. We know that communities have been destroyed, tested; they’re suffering. Our environment has been ravaged. Almost eight million hectares have been burnt across the country in those states that have been ravaged—millions and millions of hectares, much of which was so special to this country that we had given it World Heritage protection. Over a billion animals have been killed. And we know that the figures aren’t even finalised on that. Many more animals are dying today because of the lack of food and clean water because their habitats have been destroyed. We also know that hundreds of billions of insects have been lost. And this is going to have a huge impact on the ability of our environment and ecosystems to recover.


I grew up in East Gippsland. I went to school at Orbost High. My family have property about an hour up the Bonang Highway from Orbost. My parents’ property was ravaged by fire on New Year’s Eve. Our neighbour’s property was ravaged by fire. The whole community—Goongerah, Martins Creek—faced the brunt of the fires over that week. And even just this weekend, when I was talking to my dad, as they’re trying to pull their lives back together, there was another fire only 10 kilometres back down the road.

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How dare Pretend You are a Climate Scientist, Mr Mann, to discredit Jim Molan on ABC Q+A

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How dare Pretend You are a Climate Scientist, Mr Mann, to discredit Jim Molan on ABC Q+A
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Senator Malcolm Roberts Senate Speech: How dare you, Michael Mann? Last Monday, the infamous Michael Mann, the fabricator of the completely discredited hockey stick temperature graph, appeared on the ABC program Q+A and teamed up with the ABC to discredit an Australian hero, Jim Molan. How dare you, Michael Mann, pretend you are scientific when you are not? How dare you, Michael Mann, malign a marvellous leader, Jim Molan, who has the courage to challenge the status quo and state a simple fact? You come down here pretending you have evidence that carbon dioxide from human activity affects climate and needs to be cut when you have no such evidence.


 



Then you sued Professor Tim Ball, a real scientist, and then in court, you refused to provide evidence to support your case—no evidence. Didn’t the court find you in contempt? Regardless, your claim was dismissed, and you failed to provide any evidence, yet Professor Ball’s team provided plenty of solid statements and evidence from internationally reputable scientists.


You are the one in the ‘Climategate’ scandals who wanted to hide the temperature decline, weren’t you? You hide the evidence. You have sued people that dared to question you to shut them down, to stop the evidence. You now say Senator Molan as a policymaker should ask some unnamed Australian scientist for their opinion.


 


Name any such people with evidence proving human carbon dioxide affects climate variability. After 21 years, you have still not released data for your hockey stick graph fabricating high temperatures, yet many people have completely debunked it.

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