FEDERAL: Bushfire survivors respond
Bushfire survivors have responded to the Federal Government’s 2035 climate target announcement.
“A weak target means my community faces more extreme weather events and the damage they cause,” said Janet Meade of Christmas Hills (pictured).
Serena Joyner said: “This is a weak target – from a government that simultaneously claims to be proactive on climate.
“It is a betrayal of every survivor of bushfires, floods and storms – every person the Prime Minister has hugged or consoled on the fireground or floodplain, in the wreckage of their lives.
“This target sets us on a path oftwo degrees of warming and that means more summers like Black Summer, and more families and communities devastated by loss. “Disappointed doesn’t even begin to describe how we feel.”