Bob McMullan (Fraser, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Federal/State Relations) Share this | Hansard source

I will begin by asking one very brief factual question before I make my major contribution. It relates to the question of the announcement by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of $32.5 million for adaptation to climate change and, within that $32.5 million, the $7.5 million contribution to the Least Developed Countries Fund of Global Environment Facility. Can I just get clear, before we talk about the merits of broader questions to do with climate change, whether that is in fact a one-off contribution or whether the $32.5 million is the beginning of a series of annual commitments of that amount? It is not clear on the face of it. Is the $32.5 million a one-off? The forward estimates do not reflect, as far as I can see, any expenditure in the out years. I wonder if the minister can just confirm that first.

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