Albanese calls on McCormack to ‘reflect’ on ‘entirely inappropriate’ climate change comments

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Labor Leader Anthony Albanese has called on Deputy Prime Minister Michael McCormack to reflect and retract his quite extraordinary comments on climate change. After unveiling the governments support package for local communities, Mr McCormack made a remark saying a lot of people I know set their hair on fire about climate change. Speaking to the media on Friday, Mr Albanese called the comment entirely inappropriate and said we need to be very careful about the language that we use. When it comes to climate change, it is real, we do need action, he said. The government has conceded that climate change was one of the factors in the devastating bushfires Image: News Corp Australia/ Jane Dempster Read More Our Apps