Senator Christine Milne ( former Australian Greens Leader) declaring that Australian Coalition PM Tony Abbott is a climate criminal” (2013): "The Climate Change Authority was set up to de-politicise the process of setting greenhouse emission reduction targets. Everyone knows that a 5% emission reduction target is woefully inadequate. Shutting down the Climate Change Authority, ahead of its first report on fair and science based emission reduction targets for Australia, is cowardly and an attack on current and future generations. Tony Abbott is a climate criminal. Shooting the messenger does not alter the fact that Australia has to do a lot better than 5% in order to contribute fairly to the global challenge of constraining global warming to two degrees. In the context of global warming this action is a crime against humanity” (Christine Milne quoted in “Abbott’s crimes against the climate”, Australian Greens, September 2013: http://greensmps.org.au/content/media-releases/abbotts-crimes-against-climate ).