Janet Rice (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

You haven't answered my question. We've got five members of the committee—the chair and four members—and each has to have expertise in two or more of the 'following areas', but it doesn't say that expertise in all of those areas must be covered by the committee. You could in fact end up not having appointed to this committee scientific experts who are experts in our climate crisis and in climate risk if all five members had expertise in two or more of the other areas. The way this is worded leaves that as a possibility.