Greens leader fires row over climate change

Greens Leader Richard Di Natale is facing internal pressure to resign over the party’s shock loss in the Batman by-election.

Richard Di Natale is resisting internal pressure to resign as Greens leader following the party’s shock loss in the Batman by-election, amid accusations he lacks empathy after blaming inaction on climate change for the weekend’s bushfires and cyclone that destroyed homes and livestock. 

Deflecting criticism over his handling of the Batman defeat and poor results in this month’s South Australian and Tasmanian elections, Senator  

Malcolm Turnbull rebuked Senator Di Natale over his anti-coal, pro-renewables speech, ­delivered in the Senate yesterday, and the Greens leader’s comments sparked angry responses from ­regional leaders.

“This is not the time to politicise a disaster like this,” the Prime Minister said on a visit to Bega, where bushfire-hit residents have been sheltering. “You can’t attribute any particular event, whether it’s a flood or fire or a drought or a storm, to climate change.”

Mike Kelly, the Labor MP for Eden-Monaro whose electorate takes in Tathra, where 69 homes were destroyed, said the Greens should not be trying to score cheap political points.

“This has been something that has completely transcended politics,” Dr Kelly said.

Senator Di Natale was yesterday urged to step down by one of the most senior Greens figures in Western Australia, over the “untold cultural damage” he had ­inflicted on the party and the ­“explicitly centrist” policies he had pursued as federal leader.

What a grub he is politicising a natural disaster.

Greens are pure scum.

Gordon wrote on Mar 20^th, 2018 at 12:51pm:


Yes he is a retard but no different to this

like Turdbull and the Libs when SA suffered the major blackouts due to storm damage to electricity towers.

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We've always had bushfires. 

What an idiot.