"Admiral Barrie said [#Australia's] government should be moving to an effective "wartime" footing on #ClimateChange — instead, it had dedicated "precisely two sentences of substance" to climate impact.

"It appears that the government either doesn't understand what our scientists are telling them, or they are deliberately hiding the facts from the Australian community," Admiral Barrie said."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-02/national-defence-strategy-ignored-climate-risks/103789018

Climate risks ignored in National Defence Strategy, former defence chief says

Former military and intelligence leaders, including the former chief of Australia's Defence Force, say the government has "astonishingly" forgotten the risk of climate change in its defence strategy. 

^{Jake Evans (ABC News)}