Anne McEwen (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Instead he carries on about pipelines in Queensland and toilets in Victoria and he criticises a senator who has been appointed the Minister for Climate Change and Water. It is the first time ever in Australia that we have had a minister whose specific responsibility is to address these issues—an initiative that would never have occurred to the previous government to implement. Why wouldn’t that have occurred to them? Because the previous government, now the coalition opposition, were infested with climate change sceptics who did nothing in 11 years to address the dire situation of water in Australia, in particular that situation in the eastern states, particularly in my state. (Time expired)