Media Release
Mark Butler MP.
Shadow Minister for EnvironmentClimate Change and Water
Only a few days after his embarrassing
commitment to the non-existent walrus populations in Antarctica,
Environment Minister Greg Hunt is still getting the fundamentals of his
portfolio wrong.
This morning on ABC’s AM program, Greg Hunt claimed
the Government’s climate policy dud, Direct Action, would reduce the
cost of living for families.
“…$2.5 billion to do practical things to reduce the cost of living for families”
Greg Hunt, ABC AM, 14 October 2014
“The Direct Action policy involves giving $2.5bn of
tax-payers’ money to big polluters, despite all evidence suggesting the
policy will not meet its targets,” Shadow Climate Change Minister Mark
Butler said.
“This policy won’t reduce Australia’s carbon
pollution and it won’t do anything to reduce the burden on families
imposed by the Government’s unfair Budget.
“Greg Hunt is getting the lines from the Prime Minister’s Office confused.
"Direct Action is not designed to
reduce anything – not costs for families or carbon pollution. It’s just
an additional burden on the Budget bottom line which is a complete waste
of money,” Mr Butler said.
The Environment Minister is fast collecting a
number of factual faux pas, including his request in 2012 for the then
Environment Minister Tony Burke to protect the long-extinct Tasmanian
Tiger and relying on Wikipedia for his climate change information rather
than the Bureau of Meteorology.
“Mr Hunt is right about one thing – Labor
will not support the Government’s plan to spend billions of tax-payers’
dollars on a plan that no economist or climate scientist thinks will
work,” Mr Butler said.
“Direct Action is little more than a dressed up
slush fund. The Government should scrap this policy, along with its Paid
Parental Leave scheme, and redirect those funds towards meaningful
assistance for families doing it tough because of the Budget.”
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