Motion thanking community should not be ‘political’ and reference to climate change was ‘piss poor’, councillor says
The Lismore council was gripped by in-fighting on Tuesday night over whether it should make references to “climate change” following the flood disaster and an eleventh-hour decision to pause its work on flood mitigation, despite warnings the “optics” of doing so were “not good”.
Rob – who says he does not deny climate change but likes to “stir up lefties” – said he did not think a message of community support was the right place to make “political” statements about climate change.Rob was supported by three other councillors, including Andrew Gordon, who told the Guardian it was “piss poor” to add a climate change reference to a statement thanking the community.The effort to delete the reference to climate change failed.
That occurred despite councillors acknowledging the “optics” of pausing the flood mitigation committee so soon after a disaster were “not good”. Lismore council decided it should hold off doing any further work on flood mitigation of its own until it understood what CSIRO was doing.
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