Australian filmmaker Lynnette Wallworth has told the World Economic Forum in Switzerland that 'we need new leaders,' in an emotional speech while accepting a Crystal Award for global cultural leadership | NickdMiller
A pioneering Australian filmmaker has used her speech at the elite Davos meeting in Europe to send a message to Scott Morrison that he is siding with the "dinosaurs" on climate change.
"There is an extinction going on, it is the death of a worn-out way that no longer serves. As powerful as their last rampant thrashing will appear, the dinosaur industries will die, they are dying now."So despite my prime minister's appreciation of coal it is a fossil he is holding – and we have a future to create.", an annual gathering of political, business and cultural leaders at a ritzy resort in the Alps.
The WEF said Wallworth was a "bridge builder", one of four of this year's Crystal Award recipients who "provide visions of the world that can cut through the limitations of short-term or linear thinking".
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