More than 1,100 health professionals have signed an open letter to Anthony Albanese calling on the government to withdraw support for Darwin’s Middle Arm development. Follow the day’s news live
Announcement of the protest in Canberra next month comes as heatwaves have engulfed the northern hemisphere and wildfires burn in countries including Canada and Greece.
Pocock said the government had a duty to act in the best interests of Australian children and future generations and “allowing the Middle Arm petrochemical precinct to proceed would be failing young people”:
Providing a huge government subsidy to a gas export hub while seeing the impacts of climate change, and being warned there is worse to come, is negligent. We need our government to do better.
That so many are now standing up shows how defining this fight is.
It is not only doctors who have a duty of care to protect their patients from harm, but also governments, who have a duty to uphold the right to health for the people they serve. Middle Arm and Beetaloo jeopardise these basic human rights and will turbo-charge the climate crisis reducing the liveability of Northern Australia for future generations.
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