Liberals’ Climate Denial Budget
After the hottest summer in the state’s history the Liberals have delivered a climate denial Budget.
After the hottest summer in the state’s history the Liberals have delivered a climate denial Budget.
The Treasurer promised a heavy infrastructure spend in today’s Budget, but what was clearly missing was the investment in social infrastructure.
The Minister for Health this morning was saying we have a responsibility to give young people a sense of hope in the future.
I am so saddened by the failure of this House, by the failure of every Liberal and Labor member, to recognise the global state of climate emergency.
The devastating climate-induced bushfires of this past summer have knocked a hole in your budget in the order of tens of millions of dollars.
We have just 11 years to dramatically change course and avoid global heating that would bring catastrophic changes to all life.
98 per cent of scientists globally have reached a consensus that we are in the grip of a climate emergency.
In State Parliament today, both Labor and the Liberals voted against the Greens’ motion to declare a climate emergency.
We cannot congratulate the Prime Minister for the result at the federal election because it was a result that reflects deep divisions in the community.
Cassy O'Connor moves a motion to declare a climate emergency in Tasmania.