You can watch my statement here (at 09:31): http://bit.ly/1bu6z3L
My name’s Julie-Anne and I’m an Australian. Which is quite an admission in these halls at the moment.
My name’s Julie-Anne and I’m an Australian. Which is quite an admission in these halls at the moment.
People keep coming up to me and asking what’s going on? Why my government is doing such terrible things on climate policy? Why are they so addicted to coal? Why are they so determined to go backwards? How can they trash their climate policy when the rest of the world is meeting here in Warsaw to try and move forward on climate? And, particularly when our neighbouring countries, especially the Philippines, are suffering such devastation from the worst ever (worst ever!) Typhoon.
But the main question they ask me is - do the Australian people support all of this negativity and destruction?
The answer to that question is they categorically do not. The majority of Australian people do not support repealing the carbon price, trashing renewable energy support, dismantling the Climate Change Authority and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation and winding back support for a long term target of reducing carbon pollution by 80% by 2050.
