Meryl Swanson (Paterson, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

We've just come out of the warmest winter on record. Climate change is real. It's not a religion. It's not something that you believe in or don't believe in. It is science, and our farmers are hit harder than anyone else, due to a prevalence of extreme weather events. Yet the Leader of the National Party, which purports to look after regional and rural Australia, refuses to accept the challenges faced by people on the land. His archaic attitudes and rudimentary interpretation of climate science and the solutions leave a heck of a lot to be desired, and they leave our farmers and regional centres very vulnerable. As Barnaby blusters and the Prime Minister is at sea in the Pacific islands, where—

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