Peter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

They're all the questions I had for the minister. I just wanted to thank him for giving our climate emergency balloon a plug in this chamber yesterday. We managed to raise some funds from people who want to let parliament, and all the decision-makers in this place, know that we are in a climate emergency. This was a significant topic of debate in the other place yesterday. We're very pleased that Labor joined the Greens in our call to declare a climate emergency in this chamber and in the lower house of the federal parliament. Unfortunately, we weren't able to fly the balloon over parliament yesterday, as we had originally hoped to do, because of advice provided by the President. But we're quite happy to have it highlighted in this chamber. I hope Australians appreciate that we are in a climate emergency, and that at least some of us are trying to get decisions made in this place to act on the rising emissions that are causing global warming and putting our future generations in jeopardy.