35% of Aussie local councils declare a “climate emergency”
While potholes enlarge, fuel loads accumulate and rates go up, your local council is wasting its time taking action to address the so-called climate emergency.
According to data released by the International Climate Energy Forum, approximately 35 per cent of Australians live in areas where their local councils have formally declared the existence of a global “climate emergency”.
Who do these people think they are?
To see whether your local council has jumped on the bandwagon of net-zero emissions, green energy and deindustrialisation, scroll to the bottom where there’s a full list of those which have.
For example, one of the most prolific left-wing councils in Australia, the City of Sydney, passed a motion in 2019 saying climate change poses a serious risk to Sydneysiders, with Mayor Clover Moore declaring:
"Successive federal governments have shamefully presided over a climate disaster, and now we are at a critical juncture - we face a climate emergency.
"Australia's greenhouse gas emissions have increased for four consecutive years. It is clear that the current federal government's policies are simply not working, and I call on council to declare a climate emergency."
Well for your information Mayor Moore, Australia’s reduction in carbon emissions per capita outstrips the vast majority of countries including the ones run by progressives like you.
As Nick Cater pointed out in The Australian newspaper this week, while Australia has cut its emissions by about 18 per cent between 2005−19, Canada only cut it by 1 per cent and New Zealand hasn’t lowered its emissions at all.
So, what gives the Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore the right to call out the Prime Minister Morrison for climate inaction when her progressive bedfellows, Jacinda Ardern and Justin Trudeau, are way behind us?
At the end of the day, Clove Moore’s ignorance is no surprise, for this is what the modern green-left has become.
While micro-plastics pollute our ocean, China and India deplete the groundwater reserves their agricultural industries are dependent on, and wind turbine and solar panel landfills fill to the brim; green leaders like Clover Moore would rather slander Australia’s right-of-centre government than actually work to improve the environment.
Clover Moore is more interested in ensuring Sydney City Council only uses architecture firms with a gender ratio of 40 per cent male, 40 per cent female, and 20 per cent of any gender, than getting the best deal for struggling ratepayers.
What is wrong with the City of Sydney?
Although it may be inconceivable, it does get worse.
For example, in January of last year, Brisbane City Council endorsed an event where “drag queens” were tasked with reading children’s books to a group of seven-year-olds at Brisbane City Library.
And Mosman Council in Sydney, which represents some of the wealthiest people in the Southern Hemisphere, reckons “the past decade was the hottest in human history” and there have been “widespread increases in fire weather and declines in rainfall”.
What a joke.
It’s time for the leaders of Australia’s democratic and civil institutions to fulfil the mandate they’ve been given instead of using the taxpayers’ dollar to push a contested green agenda the people of Australia have rejected at the ballot box time and time again.
For the hundreds of councils in Australia, this means fixing potholes, reducing fuel loads and lowering rates for struggling households and small businesses; not declaring “climate emergencies” and hosting “drag queen story time” for children in public libraries…
List of Australian councils which have declared a climate emergency:
|
Local Council |
State |
Population |
Date declared |
|
Adelaide City Council |
SA |
27,247 |
27 Aug 2019 |
|
Adelaide Hills Council |
SA |
38,863 |
26 Mar 2019 |
|
Alexandrina Council |
SA |
27,037 |
16 Dec 2019 |
|
Armidale Regional Council |
NSW |
30,707 |
23 Oct 2019 |
|
Augusta-Margaret River Shire Council |
WA |
15,700 |
25 Sep 2019 |
|
Australian Capital Territory Legislative Assembly |
ACT |
423,811 |
16 May 2019 |
|
Ballarat City Council |
VIC |
101,685 |
21 Nov 2018 |
|
Ballina Shire Council |
NSW |
43,975 |
28 Nov 2019 |
|
Banyule City Council |
VIC |
132,771 |
7 Oct 2019 |
|
Bass Coast Shire Council |
VIC |
34,992 |
21 Aug 2019 |
|
Bayside City Council |
VIC |
105,718 |
17 Dec 2019 |
|
Bega Valley Shire Council |
NSW |
34,538 |
28 Aug 2019 |
|
Bellingen Shire Council |
NSW |
12,668 |
27 Mar 2019 |
|
Blacktown City Council |
NSW |
366,534 |
26 Feb 2020 |
|
Blue Mountains City Council |
NSW |
76,904 |
26 Feb 2019 |
|
Brimbank City Council |
VIC |
194,319 |
25 Jun 2019 |
|
Broken Hill City Council |
NSW |
17,734 |
25 Sep 2019 |
|
Burnside City Council |
SA |
45,706 |
24 Sep 2019 |
|
Byron Shire Council |
NSW |
33,987 |
18 Oct 2018 |
|
Campbelltown City Council |
SA |
53,156 |
5 Nov 2019 |
|
Canada Bay City Council |
NSW |
95,618 |
17 Sep 2019 |
|
Canterbury Bankstown City Council |
NSW |
373,931 |
27 Aug 2019 |
|
Cardinia Shire Council |
VIC |
115,400 |
16 Sep 2019 |
|
Central Coast Council |
NSW |
342,047 |
26 Aug 2019 |
|
Charles Sturt City Council |
SA |
117,382 |
9 Dec 2019 |
|
Clarence Valley Council |
NSW |
51,646 |
23 Apr 2019 |
|
Darebin City Council |
VIC |
161,609 |
5 Dec 2016 |
|
Darwin City Council |
NT |
148,564 |
30 Jul 2019 |
|
Denmark Shire Council |
WA |
6,154 |
17 Sep 2019 |
|
East Fremantle Town Council |
WA |
7,967 |
19 Nov 2019 |
|
Frankston City Council |
VIC |
143,232 |
18 Nov 2019 |
|
Fremantle City Council |
WA |
28,893 |
22 May 2019 |
|
Gawler Town Council |
SA |
26,472 |
22 Jan 2019 |
|
Glen Eira City Council .,. |
VIC |
153,858 |
5 May 2020 |
|
Glen Innes Severn Shire Council |
NSW |
8,908 |
26 Sep 2019 |
|
Greater Dandenong City Council |
VIC |
166,094 |
28 Jan 2020 |
|
Greater Geelong City Council |
VIC |
252,217 |
25 Feb 2020 |
|
Greater Geraldton City Council .,. |
WA |
38,634 |
15 Dec 2020 |
|
Greater Shepparton City Council |
VIC |
66,007 |
31 Mar 2020 |
|
Hawkesbury City Council |
NSW |
64,592 |
12 Mar 2019 |
|
Hepburn Shire Council |
VIC |
15,812 |
17 Sep 2019 |
|
Hobart City Council |
TAS |
53,684 |
17 Jun 2019 |
|
Hobsons Bay City Council |
VIC |
96,459 |
8 Oct 2019 |
|
Holdfast Bay City Council |
SA |
37,032 |
8 Oct 2019 |
|
Hunters Hill Council |
NSW |
13,199 |
24 Feb 2020 |
|
Indigo Shire Council |
VIC |
16,489 |
30 Jul 2019 |
|
Inner West Council |
NSW |
182,043 |
14 May 2019 |
|
Kiama Municipal Council |
NSW |
22,000 |
17 Dec 2019 |
|
Kingborough Council |
TAS |
35,853 |
8 Jul 2019 |
|
Kingston City Council |
VIC |
162,500 |
28 Jan 2020 |
|
Lane Cove Council |
NSW |
39,486 |
16 Sep 2019 |
|
Launceston City Council |
TAS |
84,153 |
8 Aug 2019 |
|
Light Regional Council |
SA |
14,736 |
26 Mar 2019 |
|
City of Lismore |
NSW |
43,843 |
13 Aug 2019 |
|
Macedon Ranges Shire Council .,. |
VIC |
49,388 |
24 Mar 2021 |
|
Manningham Council |
VIC |
122,902 |
28 Jan 2020 |
|
Maribyrnong City Council |
VIC |
82,288 |
19 Feb 2019 |
|
Melbourne City Council |
VIC |
169,961 |
16 Jul 2019 |
|
MidCoast Council |
NSW |
93,288 |
23 Oct 2019 |
|
Mildura Rural City Council |
VIC |
55,515 |
26 Feb 2020 |
|
Mitcham Council |
SA |
67,253 |
22 Oct 2019 |
|
Moonee Valley City Council |
VIC |
130,265 |
8 Oct 2019 |
|
Mosman Council |
NSW |
30,913 |
12 Nov 2019 |
|
Mount Alexander Shire Council |
VIC |
19,514 |
17 Dec 2019 |
|
Mount Barker District Council |
SA |
36,477 |
4 Nov 2019 |
|
Moreland City Council |
VIC |
162,558 |
12 Sep 2018 |
|
Mornington Peninsula Shire Council |
VIC |
165,633 |
13 Aug 2019 |
|
Moyne Shire Council |
VIC |
16,887 |
22 Oct 2019 |
|
Mundaring Shire Council |
WA |
39,139 |
10 Dec 2019 |
|
Murray Bridge Council |
SA |
21,735 |
14 Oct 2019 |
|
Newcastle City Council |
NSW |
164,103 |
28 May 2019 |
|
Noosa Shire Council |
QLD |
52,149 |
18 Jul 2019 |
|
North Sydney Council |
NSW |
67,658 |
22 Jul 2019 |
|
Northern Beaches Council |
NSW |
271,278 |
27 Aug 2019 |
|
Northern Midlands Council .,. |
TAS |
13,300 |
19 Oct 2020 |
|
Port Adelaide Enfield City Council |
SA |
126,120 |
8 Oct 2019 |
|
Port Lincoln City Council |
SA |
14,064 |
19 Aug 2019 |
|
Port Macquarie-Hastings Council .,. |
NSW |
83,131 |
17 Mar 2021 |
|
Port Phillip City Council |
VIC |
113,200 |
18 Sep 2019 |
|
Queenscliffe Borough Council |
VIC |
2,982 |
19 Dec 2019 |
|
Randwick City Council |
NSW |
140,660 |
30 Apr 2019 |
|
Ryde City Council |
NSW |
127,446 |
28 May 2019 |
|
Salisbury City Council |
SA |
144,440 |
28 Oct 2019 |
|
Stonnington City Council |
VIC |
116,207 |
17 Feb 2020 |
|
Strathbogie Shire Council .,. |
VIC |
10,645 |
20 Apr 2021 |
|
Surf Coast Shire Council |
VIC |
32,651 |
27 Aug 2019 |
|
Swan City Council |
WA |
149,195 |
28 Aug 2019 |
|
Sydney City Council |
NSW |
208,373 |
24 Jun 2019 |
|
Tweed Shire Council |
NSW |
96,108 |
19 Sep 2019 |
|
Upper Hunter Shire Council |
NSW |
14,220 |
25 Feb 2019 |
|
Victor Harbor Council |
SA |
15,248 |
16 Dec 2019 |
|
Town of Victoria Park |
WA |
34,990 |
14 Aug 2018 |
|
Vincent City Council |
WA |
35,768 |
4 Apr 2018 |
|
Warrnambool City Council |
VIC |
35,957 |
7 Oct 2019 |
|
Waverley Council |
NSW |
74,114 |
10 Dec 2019 |
|
Willoughby City Council |
NSW |
80,339 |
17 Oct 2019 |
|
Wingecarribee Shire Council |
NSW |
47,882 |
12 Feb 2020 |
|
Wollongong City Council |
NSW |
216,071 |
12 Aug 2019 |
|
Woollahra Municipal Council |
NSW |
58,964 |
9 Sep 2019 |
|
Yarra City Council |
VIC |
95,981 |
7 Feb 2017 |
|
Yarra Ranges Council |
VIC |
159,180 |
10 Sep 2019 |
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