Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I thank the minister for his frankness about the ongoing climate change scepticism in the government. I ask the minister to apologise to rural Australians for the ongoing misleading of those people to the view that climate change is not real or urgent and that weather patterns will return to something of the past. Does the government believe that we need to do more than just provide bandaid cheques for drought relief, flood relief and fire relief? Does the government believe we need a new strategy for a transition in rural Australia to adapt to the realities of climate change?