Anthony Chisholm (Queensland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Labor supports the first part of this motion, which condemns the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison government's inaction on climate change. However, Labor will oppose this motion because we cannot support the matters relating to estimates programming. Labor submitted our Environment and Communications estimates request to the secretariat on 19 and 20 September. The Greens should share when they submitted their request, if indeed they did. This motion seeks to move only program 2.1 to an earlier time, not programs 2.2 and 2.3. The nature of estimates is that someone has to go last. The Senate has a robust procedure for spillover hearings if necessary. Labor will always hold the government to account on their poor performance when it comes to inaction on climate change.