Peter Garrett (Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Heritage) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources. I refer to the minister’s comments on 3 February:

There’s a lot of very exaggerated claims ... and because of the geology or the [topography] of the east coast ... much of that is adequately elevated to deal with a one-metre sea rise.

Will the minister confirm that University of Sydney research shows that rising sea levels could lead to erosion extending—

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