AUSTRALIA AND NASA: Some scientists more equal than others?

To submit a letter to The Age , email letters@theage.com.au . Please include your home address and telephone number. It is difficult to marry Prime Minister Scott Morrison’s investment of $150 million in the Australian Space Agency for the development of science and engineering to assist the USA to land astronauts on the moon with his government’s continued wilful ignoring of expert climate scientists and their warnings regarding the dire consequences of climate change, which are already being experienced all around the world ("Moon in sights with $12b space deal", The Age , 23/9). Illustration: Cathy Wilcox Perhaps he thinks this will help to keep him in Donald Trump’s good books. Here’s a thought, Mr Morrison – how about investing that money in the renewable energy industry here so that future generations will be able to live on Earth? We can’t all relocate to the moon when this planet becomes uninhabitable. As many of the signs at the student climate strike last Friday stated: There is no Planet B. Joy Hayman, Blackburn North Belief, but only up to a point The federal government believes the science from NASA about space exploration but does not believe the science from NASA about climate change? Malcolm Fraser, Oakleigh South Contribution is a slap in the face The Prime Minister’s contribution of $150 million to the US space administration’s plans for the moon and Mars is a cruel slap in the face to every group in Australian society crying out for government funds to run their programs for the needy. Such a donation of this huge sum of money says to those people on Newstart you are less worthy. It says to those people waiting on the NDIS, you are less worthy. It says to domestic violence support groups, you are less worthy. […]

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