Important times in the @AboutTheHouse as we proceed through the consideration in details stage of the Climate Change Bill. #auspol ✅ @Mon4Kooyong has moved an amendment to strengthen the objects of the Climate Change Bill to ensure the goal of the Paris Agreement of keeping warming to +1.5. #climateaction

🧵Right now Australia is battling a ‘multi-demic’ of respiratory viruses, including the flu, RSV, para-influenza, adenovirus and HMPV.


Today in NSW alone there are 133,272 active cases of Covid.
#CovidIsNotOver
1/4 With our immune systems weakened by 2 years of lockdown restrictions, and new more transmissible strains of the virus, we need to get back in the habit of wearing a mask, especially in crowded or shared spaces.

#MaskUp
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🧵Statement on PM Albanese's proposal for drastic crossbench staff cuts👇
#auspol Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has shown a damning display of poor judgement today with his drastic proposal that personal staff for crossbenchers be cut from four to just one. 🧵>

The PM and his Government say a vote for the independents is a vote for chaos. More chaotic than the Parliament under his leadership? Here’s my thoughts:
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#auspol #warringahvotes 1. There can be significant benefits to power-sharing arrangements. Communities get more say on what the government might do, and generally speaking the crossbench is more interested in transparency and accountability than the government ever is. 🧵 2/6

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Australia was just singled out as a climate "holdout" by UN secretary General @antonioguterres . It's rare to see him single a country out like this. What does he mean? 🧵⬇️ 👏 Many G20 developed economies have announced meaningful #emissionsreduction targets for 2030.
👎 Not Australia. Scott Morrison still took Tony Abbott's 26-28% emissions target to COP26. This targets is 6 years old.

😡Past 11pm, still debating the Religious Discrimination Bill, ALP MPs trying to explain why they have decided to support the Coalition’s bad legislation, that will still be bad even if amended. Protecting some to lawfully discriminate against others!🤮#voteindependent #auspol Amendments only try to protect students & teachers. What about an unwed mother nurse or director of a faith affiliated nursing home for example, whose employment can then be lawfully terminated under pry 2 because it’s “against the ethos & teachings”of a religion?

.@JasonFalinskiMP & @TimWilsonMP scrambling: either they don’t know how to read a legislation or they are just misleading? Fact: Commission to make recommendations to Govt and then report to Aus public on how Govt plan is delivering. Is the issue being held to account? #auspol

https://twitter.com/smh/status/1231324203292426240

Pressure coming their way: see breakdown of support per electorate and State at ClimateActNow.com.au I am sure all these people will remember at the next election. Share widely to anyone you know in Mackellar and Melbourne, party politics is putting Aus at risk. #ClimateActNow