Ethics committee clears Michael Berkman of inciting or encouraging Extinction Rebellion protest but labels his conduct ‘disgraceful’
Greens MP Michael Berkman was referred to the parliamentary ethics committee over comments in support of climate activists facing charges over a 2022 protest.Greens MP Michael Berkman was referred to the parliamentary ethics committee over comments in support of climate activists facing charges over a 2022 protest.
“The effect on democracy of celebrating such behaviour, such as that which occurred when protestors stormed the US Capitol building on 6 January 2021, is all too easy to see,” the committee wrote. “The Committee has labelled the protest and my post ‘immature’, ‘disgraceful’, and an ‘affront to democracy’,” he tweeted.
Lee Coaldrake told Guardian Australia the committee’s findings were another attempt to “demonise” climate protesters as “extremists”.
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