Report stumbles and falls for ideological reasons, and fails Australians

Australia’s latest “Intergenerational Report” stumbled and fell for ideological reasons when confronted with the realities of climate change.

Our existing neo-liberal Coalition Government has always found the idea of climate contrary to its grand designs; designs that hinge entirely of more of what was and live or die on a carbon rich economy.

Our previous Intergenerational Report, a produce of the then Labor Government, devoted an entire chapter to the challenges of climate change, while this latest report, handed down by Treasurer Joe Hockey, limited  what is in fact a nation-defining difficulty to just three pages.

This timely missed opportunity to address the greatest risk Australia has ever faced has been lamented on The Drum by Olivia Kember and Kate Mackenzie

Writing in “Intergenerational Report fails us on climate risks”  they said: “The Intergenerational Report is all about what's most important for our future, so it's a shame it became another missed opportunity to address the biggest risk issue of the day: climate change.