Dana Wortley (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister does not have a water plan. Climate change is a serious threat, and the Howard government posturing about expensive and toxic nuclear energy is a distraction Australia cannot afford. The EPBC Act has failed to address environmental challenges, and now the Howard government has again failed to deliver to the Australian people on the environment—to our children and to future generations. In concluding, I quote from an article in the Herald Sun this week:

Our spring rains are 80 per cent below average, our dams are drying up, our farmland is parched and cracking, our farmers are killing themselves in despair and still the Australian Government equivocates about climate change.

We oppose the Environment and Heritage Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2006.