Morning mail: Australia’s climate ‘smoke and mirrors’, Indigenous families fight for justice, Bernie Madoff dies

<p><strong>Thursday</strong>: Leading climatologist says Coalition policies do not address crisis and the US won’t be fooled. Plus: what Australia can learn from other countries’ vaccine rollouts</p><p>Good morning. Australia could be in for <strong>a frosty reception</strong> at global warming talks, a police shooting <strong>fans tensions in Minneapolis</strong> once again and <strong>Indigenous families call for justice</strong>, 30 years after the royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody. All that, and more, in today’s morning mail.</p><p><strong>One of the world’s leading climate scientists has accused the Australian government’s approach to emission reductions of being “smoke and mirrors”,</strong> cautioning that the Biden administration would not be “fooled” by rhetoric designed to mask a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/apr/15/morrison-government-cant-conceal-inaction-on-climate-from-us-with-smoke-and-mirrors">“clear record of inaction”</a>. Michael E Mann, a distinguished professor of atmospheric science, also said “renewed American leadership” on the crisis would increase scrutiny on Australia, as Scott Morrison prepares for a virtual climate summit next week at US President Joe Biden’s invitation. <strong>A major report suggests <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/15/report-claiming-global-temperature-rise-will-top-15c-by-2030s-divides-scientists">Australia would need to triple</a> its 2030 emissions reduction target</strong> and achieve net-zero emissions by 2035 to help prevent temperature rises above 2C. Meanwhile, WWF Australia has announced it will <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/apr/15/wwf-australia-creates-legal-fund-to-fight-projects-threatening-forests-after-black-summer-bushfires">help fund community legal ch