Zali Steggall (Warringah, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

To the Prime Minister: times are serious. Peak medical bodies last week declared a health climate emergency, recognising the severe effect climate change will have on human health, especially children, who are more vulnerable to heat-related illnesses, respiratory disease and allergenic conditions. Today emergency services are describing the conditions of the fires in northern New South Wales and Queensland as unprecedented this early in spring. Scientists have been warning of this for years. With the gathering of these very grave concerns, does the Prime Minister agree that Australia needs a real plan to decarbonise every major polluting sector by 2050, and will such a plan be presented to this parliament?

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