In delivering the annual Jack Beale Lecture at UNSW, Suzuki put the boot in the new Coalition government when he attacked Tony Abbott's promise to eliminate the carbon tax, "it will probably make this politically toxic for at least a decade before it will be able to come back on the agenda". He went on to say that, "this is what the corporations have wanted".
Suzuki drew on the similarities between the Canadian and Australian government policies and the links made by both, in that a reduction in the carbon footprint would be catastrophic for both countries economies.
He describes the cancelling of the Climate Commission and the firing of Tim Flannery as "criminal negligence through wilful blindness".
Tune in... he's a passionate advocate.
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http://www.abc.net.au/tv/bigideas/stories/2013/10/21/3866521.htm
[21 September 2013, 6pm - 7:30pm; Sir John Clancy Auditorium, UNSW Kensington campus]
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