Prime Minister Scott Morrison has acknowledged a horror start to the bushfire season and weeks of smoke haze hovering over Sydney as a "national disaster" and moved to assure people his government is taking climate change seriously.
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| Prime Minister Scott Morrison has urged Australians to remain calm after a horror start to the bushfire season. |
Mr Morrison said he understood people found the severity of the fires "deeply troubling" and “unsettling".
"We all know this is a national disaster and we knew this was going to be a very tough fire season when we went into this season. We also know that there are many contributing factors that relate to these fires," Mr Morrison said at a press conference in Melbourne on Thursday morning.
"The drought is obviously - and the dryness of the bush is the biggest factor and we all know, as I acknowledged earlier this year in February, that climate change, along with many other factors, contribute to what is occurring today."
Read the story from The Age by Nick Bonyhady - “'Deeply troubling and unsettling': Prime Minister urges calm over bushfires.”
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