Former Defence Force Chief Admiral Chris Barrie, from the Australian Security Leaders Climate Group, tells SBS's Biwa Kwan that while he was pleased when there was a change of government in in May last year, he's been pretty disappointed with their performance so far regarding climate change.
The Australian government has been quite slow to connect the dots here between national security and climate, from your years, in that, in that space of security, how do you see those two fitting together and the role of the Australian Government necessitating action here?
And has there been anyone around the world in terms of going to bat governments here, that have really been able to connect to enact on in this space? And in terms of security, how do you see that because we have with the increasing frequency of climate change and bushfires and the like, the deployment of the emergency services, the ADF, in times of need, is only growing in demand.
Would you argue I mean, the government has held disaster preparedness summits, they've announced national coordination bodies to coordinate fire response and inquiries to have a look at what wasn't done.
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