Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Ellison, the Minister representing the Attorney-General, and it is also about the security of Australian families. I ask the minister: in relation to the excellent government initiative for a Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre in Melbourne, what work has been done on the impact of increasing bushfire danger through climate change? Can the minister say what work has been done on the scourge of the bushfire season, which is arson? Is the research centre looking at the problem of arsonists and what action—