CLIMATE activists who defaced Parliament House last week care nothing for the environment, instead want to “radically” push Australia towards communism.
Senator Matt Canavan told Parliament last week, after Extinction Rebellion members set fire to a pram and spray-painted their message –“duty of care” – that the protesters “don’t want to change the climate, that’s not their goal”.
- If they were serious, they would walk down to the Chinese Communist Party embassy.
- The Greens echoed the spray painted graffiti of the so-called 'brave protestors'.
- Extinction Rebellion is calling for net zero-emissions by 2025.
“They’re there to change our government, to change our democracy [into communism],” he said. “They do not support democracy. They do not support our systems of government.”
The attack on Parliament was repeated at the Prime Minister’s Canberra residence, The Lodge.
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The Nationals senator from Queensland said that while Australians had a “right to protest and have their views heard,” climate activists should have protested outside the Canberra embassy of one of the world’s biggest carbon dioxide emitters – China.
Research from earlier this year has shown that China alone emits more carbon dioxide in 16 days than Australia does in an entire year, with Beijing continuing to commission new coal-fired power stations unabatedly.
“If those protesters were serious about emissions, they would have walked down to the Chinese Communist Party embassy, just down the road, and protested against the biggest carbon emitter in the place,” he said.
“But they don’t do that, because a lot of those activists and some of the people in the Australian Greens kind of like communism. I reckon they’re kind of in favour of it. That’s why they’re not protesting against communists.”
Canavan said members of the Australian Greens had “abetted” the Extinction Rebellion protest and that they should “hang their heads in shame” for having associated with them.
During question time, Greens senator Nick McKim did not declare direct support for the illegal graffiti, but he echoed the spray-painted message of what he called the “brave protesters”.
The offices of the leader of the Australian Greens in the Senate Larissa Waters; and Mr McKim did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Meanwhile, Mr Canavan noted that the Extinction Rebellion activists had no right to “come into the heart of our democracy and graffiti their own views on the front of the building, to the exclusion of Australians with differing views”.
“Anyone associating with these vandals and juveniles should be denounced, and anyone who does not denounce them deserves no respect in the Australian democratic political system,” he said.
The Extinction Rebellion protest came after the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released an overhyped report predicting global temperatures were almost certain to exceed a 1.5 degrees Celsius increase above pre-industrial levels.
Supporters of the activist group say they fear for the future of their children and grandchildren and want the Australian government to end fossil fuel use. The climate activists want Australia’s emissions targets to achieve net-zero by 2025.
Meanwhile, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison last week defended his government’s climate policies and addressed the IPCC’s predictions.
While noting that advanced countries like Australia must continue to do their part, he said, “We cannot ignore the fact that the developing world accounts for two-thirds of global emissions, and those emissions are rising. That is a stark fact.”
He added, “It is also a clear fact that China’s emissions account for more than the OECD combined.”
The OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) consists of 38 of the world’s most developed countries, including the United States, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and most of Europe.
Morrison said Australia’s emissions had fallen by 20 per cent since 2005.PC
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