Australia urges more intelligence sharing in Asia to stop Paris-style attack

The target, roughly in line with what the independent Climate Change Authority recommends, is significantly higher than the 2030 target the government will be armed with in Paris.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull on Tuesday called for greater intelligence sharing in Southeast Asia to stop a Paris-style terror attack and ordered local law enforcement officials to test their readiness to handle a mass casualty attack.

To add to Shorten’s woes, support for the Labor Party has fallen to 33 percent, six points lower than when Turnbull replaced Tony Abbott as leader in September.

It compares with the Coalition’s carbon reduction target of about 28% by 2020, from 2005 levels.

“Stopping global warming means stopping new emissions”.

Mr Shorten acknowledges it’s a tough target.

Australia has for months been active in Iraq, and recently started carrying out air strikes against IS targets in Syria as part of a 60-nation, US-led coalition against the jihadists.

Mr Shorten says that’s simply not acceptable.

The Premier also announced the creation of The Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Council, which will monitor the implementation of the “Not Now, Not Ever Report” created earlier this year.

But Treasurer Scott Morrison disagrees with Labor’s calculations.

The government has said six attacks have been foiled on home soil over the past year, although several have not, including a police employee shot dead in Sydney last month by a 15-year-old reportedly shouting religious slogans.

Senior Federal Government frontbencher Christopher Pyne joined Mr Hunt in ridiculing Labor’s 2030 carbon emissions target, describing it as a mad thought bubble.

“Bill Shorten’s policy, his thought bubble, 45 per cent reduction, would require them to introduce, or re-introduce, a carbon tax at double the rate of the carbon tax before”.

“He wants to smash household budgets and smash the economy”.

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