Naomi Klein delivered a stinging rebuke to Australia’s approach to refugees and climate change, as well as criticising interventions from the Institute of Public Affairs, in a fiery episode of ABC’s Q&A on Monday night. A dispute on climate change policy was provoked by a question from audience member Jim Stanford, an economist with the leftwing thinktank the Australia Institute. Klein interrupted Paterson and asked, “Do you believe climate change is real?” to which Paterson said he did. We have two people from this thinktank and this is the foremost organ in Australia for spreading climate change denial and doubt. Downer said: “The IPA is, we don’t have an IPA opinion on climate change per se.

Source: The Guardian November 07, 2016 19:37 UTC