Age letter calls for "True Leadership' on climate goals

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letter from Kew’s Lynn Frankes published in today’s Melbourne Age, headed “True leadership”.

She wrote:

“One night last week in the conservative heartland of Kooyong, the Hawthorn Town Hall was packed with 400 people concerned about climate change. The desire for leadership was palpable but it was not answered when Josh Frydenberg, the local member and Resources Minister, spoke via Skype about the moral imperative to export Australia's coal. Rather, it was when Bishop Genieve Blackwell spoke about our deep sense of the Earth as a gift, the importance of our stewardship of all that is in it and our moral responsibility to future generations. If the Bishop's calibre of leadership were to translate to the political arena we would find the minister talking about the moral imperative to place a moratorium on new coal mines as 61 true Australian leaders did in their letter to the Prime Minister.“