Mike Freelander (Macarthur, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Our children and our grandchildren will suffer the effects of climate change for generations unless we act. We're already seeing the effects of climate change, with unstable weather patterns, increased flooding and increased heatwaves and droughts, yet we've had no action from the other side. It's terrible. Our environment is deteriorating in front of our eyes. The minister for the environment released the report that the Liberal-National coalition should have released months and months ago but didn't, which showed the terrible deterioration in our environment and the extinction rates of not just our birds, insects and reptiles but our mammals, which are faster than those in any country in the world. These are all the direct effects of climate change, yet the Liberal-National coalition have done nothing.

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