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

It's very clear that this government is deeply ashamed of how fast pollution is rising on its watch. That's why they're undertaking an orchestrated strategy to hide information on pollution growth—to obscure it and drop it at a time of their choosing. An FOI from the ACF shows that they hid the last quarterly greenhouse accounts for almost two months after the department cleared it for release. Then they dumped it in the late afternoon before a long weekend of footy finals. What a disgrace! They're ashamed that this report shows that pollution's going up. It exposes that they've got no climate policy and energy policy. You can see it in the way the environment minister is avoiding all media interview requests. You can see it in the way that they've moved the estimates session on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from during the day to as late at night as possible. It's up to the Senate to stand up to these strategies to obscure what this government is doing when it comes to trashing our environment.