Today's challenges are the beginning of the criminal system collapsing, and this is entirely the fault of Minister O'Callaghan.
Roderic O'Gorman
The Public Record
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October 6, 2026
The Government's decision to reduce the carbon tax is absolutely pathetic.
— Roderic O'Gorman
The current situation in the courts marks the beginning of the criminal system collapsing.
The Minister gutting and undermining legal aid has led directly to a situation where bail hearings are a mess, and we now get these Article 40 hearings in the High Court that shouldn't have to happen.
Green Party leader Roderic O'Gorman said that the bill was one-sided in its focus and ignores all but one set of stakeholders.
The idea that a brand-new piece of fossil fuel infrastructure would be exempted from the application of the Climate Act, it makes a mockery of our country's statements that we take climate action seriously.
In my view we probably waited too long for the attorney general's view of the initial bill.
We'd like to see measures included to encourage the second-hand sale of EVs so that choosing electric was affordable to more people.
This is a political call, and the political call is we can annoy the Trump administration a little bit by including goods, but not that next little bit by including services.





