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Human rights advocates and union leaders have urged the Australian government to impose targeted sanctions against Myanmar’s military leaders as the first anniversary of the coup looms.
A letter to the foreign minister, Marise Payne, also calls for sanctions or other economic measures to stop funds from Myanmar’s oil and gas sector, the junta’s single largest source of foreign currency revenue, amid concerns about the deadly campaign against anti-junta protesters.
By joining with other countries that have imposed targeted sanctions, the Australian government would send a strong message to abusive leaders in Myanmar and around the world that there are far-reaching consequences for their actions. Many people in Myanmar are risking their lives to challenge military rule. The Australian government should unequivocally stand by them and heed their calls to help deprive the military of its revenue sources, joining other governments to maximise pressure on Myanmar’s junta to end its campaign of terror against the Myanmar people.
Because every reef, in fact every natural world heritage property, is under the same threat, if you like, from climate change as our great barrier reef. So the unreasonableness of the listing is that our reef was singled out. You could line up every single reef in the world, not nearly as well-managed as ours, and not one of them were listed as being in danger or draft listed as being in danger.
Now we won that argument in the international forum at the world heritage committee because it was a perfectly sensible argument. But we also said we have taken a position as a country that we want to take a look at the effect of climate change on world heritage properties. Australia has done some of the leading work on that... so we’re not shying away from that. What we want is a global response to how we manage world heritage properties in the face of climate change that doesn’t single out a single one and doesn’t actually suggest that one country can on its own make a difference.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2022/jan/28/australia-news-live-updates-covid-omicron-nsw-victoria-weather-vaccine-scott-morrison-rapid-tests-case-numbers
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