Julian Hill (Bruce, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I want to thank Adele. She lives in a regional community in Victoria in the electorate of Indi. She knitted me this beautiful scarf as part of the Common Grace Knit for Climate Action project. Christians across Australia are knitting these scarfs to show their deep care and concern and to call for real action on climate change. I promised her that I would wear this scarf in parliament today to make this statement. Today is the last joint sitting day before the Glasgow conference, and this scarf represents the truth of climate change. These scarves map the climate data for 101 years, starting from the cooler years to the later part of this century—red hot.

I'm humbled by the efforts of Common Grace and, especially, Adele. We had a lovely Zoom, and she did confess to me that she's 'not much of a knitter'. People in her regional community felt incredible ownership over this project. They dropped off wool and yarn and supported her along the way. She even told me that she broke the design. She's a bit of a rebel, Adele. She put tassels on the end, because she didn't want anything to go to waste, and—hear this—four tiny green dots representing the years in which each of her children were born. I discovered later in the Zoom that she's the mother to one of my university friends, who attended my 21st—we didn't speak about that.

This is a beautiful visual way to start a conversation about climate change. We've had a wasted decade of inaction under the Liberal-National government. We should be leaping ahead and seizing the jobs that come. Instead, the right-wing nut jobs in the National Party are holding the country's economy to ransom—

Llew O'Brien (Wide Bay, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member will pause, and the member will withdraw the comment that was just made.

Julian Hill (Bruce, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

'Right-wing nut jobs'?

Llew O'Brien (Wide Bay, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes.

Julian Hill (Bruce, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I didn't mean you, Deputy Speaker Llew O'Brien, but I'll withdraw.