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Transparency would help MPs ‘weigh up predicted wars, water shortages and supply chain collapses against every new coal and gas approval’

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[-] autotldr@lemmings.world 16 points 3 years ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


The Greens are seeking to use a Senate procedure to push for transparency, saying the security report will help parliamentarians to “weigh up predicted wars, water shortages and supply chain collapses against every new coal and gas approval”.

The US report, released in 2021, warned: “Intensifying physical effects will exacerbate geopolitical flashpoints, particularly after 2030, and key countries and regions will face increasing risks of instability and need for humanitarian assistance.”

The Greens senator David Shoebridge, who submitted the notice of motion, said Australia was “increasingly isolated in wanting to suppress security assessments of the big climate risks the world is facing”.

Shoebridge argued that the government’s refusal, to date, to release the climate risk assessment was “yet another way of protecting the fossil fuel industry at the expense of Australia’s national security and the Australian public”.

Two months later the government released a public version of the report, which warned that the ADF was structured for “a bygone era” and must be able to project military power further from Australia’s shores.

In answer to a question on notice from Shoebridge about whether the review had taken into account the ONI assessment, the Department of Defence said Houston and Smith “had access to a range of material to perform their analysis at both a classified and unclassified level”.


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[-] billytheid@aussie.zone 8 points 3 years ago

The ALP are bought and paid for. I expect nothing honest from them without pressure from the minor parties and The Greens

[-] DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com -3 points 3 years ago

Smells like half-arsed reporting from the Guardian. All we have here is commentary from Faruqi and Shoebridge - nothing at all from the Labor party. Not even a statement that they were asked to comment but declined.

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