Coalition rejects climate emergency call

Updated October 15 2019 - 9:36pm, first published 5:32pm
Labor's Mark Butler plans to lodge a motion in parliament declaring the climate emergency.
Labor's Mark Butler plans to lodge a motion in parliament declaring the climate emergency.

The Morrison government has shot down attempts for parliament to declare a climate emergency, categorising it a "grand symbolic gesture".

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