Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes, with regret, the resignation of Mr Bernie Fraser as Chair of the independent Climate Change Authority 2 years before the expiry of his 5 year term;

(b) congratulates Mr Fraser on his outstanding service as chair of the board and his contribution to the work of the Authority;

(c) notes that the Authority now no longer has a quorum; and

(d) calls on the Federal Government to:

(i) immediately appoint a replacement chair to ensure that the board is able to function and allow the work of the Authority to proceed,

(ii) abandon its plan to abolish the Authority, and

(iii) stop ignoring the Authority’s advice on the need for ambitious pollution reduction targets to safeguard Australians’ way of life from dangerous global warming.