Ursula Stephens (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Science and Water) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I thank the minister for that response. Just last month the Prime Minister told the ABC Four Corners program:

I accept that climate change is a challenge. I accept the broad theory about local warming. I’m sceptical about a lot of the more gloomy climate change predictions.

Does the government now accept that climate change is contributing to the ‘gloomy’ state of the Murray-Darling Basin and that climate change is contributing to what the Murray-Darling Commission itself described as a one in a 1,000-year drought?