Criticism of Scott Morrison’s leadership on the bushfires is coming from as far as Britain now, with one brekkie host ripping into the PM. bushfireaustralia australiafire ausfires
“Scott Morrison thought the right response to these fires erupting in Australia was to go lie on a beach in Hawaii and that was a dereliction of his duty as leader of Australia,” Morgan said.
“You’re facing right now one of the greatest crises you’ve ever faced and there is you, Mr Kelly, with respect, a senior politician who still doesn’t think this has anything to do with a heating up planet, nothing to see here, nothing to worry about,” Morgan said. Mr Kelly has denied there is a link between climate change and drought, and has slammed students who marched for climate change action last year as “sheep” who are being “manipulated”.
“I follow the science” Mr Kelly interjects, as Morgan continues: “as virtually your entire country is eviscerated by fires, it’s quite extraordinary”. Mr Kelly responded saying: “Not at all, this is a terrible disaster, this is one of our nation’s worst natural disasters … in the past when we had these in our nation … we all sat back and did what we could to fix it up rather than people get out there to score political points.”
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