There's a lot of "it's probably concealed for a reason" type posts that I don't think I'd be seeing if this was the LNP.

Also how can Australians trust the government to make national security laws if they aren't informed on national security issues?

I’m not too surprised. Says it contains assessments of risks to the country and there some certain countries near Australia I could see doing certain things to the other countries in the immediate area for certain resources (nudge nudge). And I don’t think the Australian gov would want that to be public for fear of intensifying already tense relations with certain countries.

It probably mentioned the 60 million or so Bangladeshis that will be looking for dry land to live on.

When this really kicks off there will likely be war between India and China over water in the Himalayas if not Taiwan to distract the Chinese general population.

They have already lost a lot of their crops this year due to flooding

Massive movements of millions of people seeking habitable land. ( Do you know anywhere near Asia with lots of empty space?)

Agricultural collapse, water wars and disruption worldwide…

It will make the boat people nonsense of the past 2 decades look like a nice walk in the park.

So nothing to see here really.

I wouldn't be surprised if this article is about the probability of climate induced World War III and publishing the article could increase the risk of war.

I'm willing to trust the judgement of people who've actually read the report on wether or not it should be published.

I'm convinced it's for a good reason, but wait till the conspiracy theorists crawl out and claim it's secret because the government found out climate change isn't real.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The Australian government is not only refusing to release its secret report on how the climate crisis will fuel national security threats – it won’t even say when it was completed.

In a new response to Senate questions on notice, the prime minister confirmed the ONI’s climate assessment was finalised “within the last 12 months”.

Five other questions from the Greens’ defence spokesperson, David Shoebridge, were answered with an identical response: “The content and judgments of the assessment are classified.”

A single page of that 80-page climate statement was devoted to national security, saying global heating would “increasingly exacerbate risks” as “geopolitical tensions mount about how to respond”.

Both Pocock and Shoebridge proposed Senate motions to order the government to produce key documents, but the major parties combined to defeat them on 10 August.

In 2021, the US intelligence community released a report that warned: “Intensifying physical effects will exacerbate geopolitical flashpoints, particularly after 2030, and key countries and regions will face increasing risks of instability and need for humanitarian assistance.”

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