Richard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Education and Training representing the Minister for the Environment and Energy. Minister, on budget day, the world hit the highest concentration of heat-trapping gases in 800,000 years. The science is abundantly clear—and we've said it many, many times: extreme weather's already getting more frequent and more violent. The risks of tipping over into runaway global warming are getting higher and higher, and yet the budget shows that climate funding has fallen off a cliff to a tiny 0.2 per cent of total government expenditure. Minister, how do you explain doing less and less as the climate crisis gets worse and worse?