Hours after the release of a UN report on the dire state of the planet’s ecosystems, the environment minister, Melissa Price, posted a photo of herself on Facebook at the opening of a miniature railway in her electorate.
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| Melissa Price speaks in parliament house before the election was called and she stopped giving interviews. |
It wasn’t until more than 12 hours after the Facebook post that the West Australian MP issued a statement responding to the analysis by 450 scientists and diplomats that warned the decline of the natural world was accelerating, and a million species were at risk of extinction.
There was no interview. The written statement referenced Coalition programs, including a $100m fund announced in the federal budget, aimed at tackling biodiversity loss. It was the most that had been heard of Price so far in the election campaign.
Read the story from The Guardian by Lisa Cox - “‘Missing in action': hunt goes on for Coalition's invisible environment minister.”
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