Senate debates

Wednesday, 9 December 2020

Questions without Notice

Fraser Island: Bushfires

2:22 pm

Photo of Simon BirminghamSimon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

Again, that's the type of cheap, headline-grabbing stunt that you would expect from the Greens, no doubt to be sliced and diced for a social media video on which they can grandstand, taking cheap shots, ignoring the facts or the evidence and ignoring the efforts that are being made that I was just referencing in relation to climate and emissions reduction. They ignore all of those things just so that they can grandstand. They ignore, of course, the fact that climate change is a global challenge. Australia is doing our bit in meeting and exceeding on the commitments that we make, but it also necessitates other countries to do more, to actually reduce their emissions to the same degree that Australia has. They're the things that we will continue to work internationally to engage in while investing record sums in terms of the technology road map and transformation necessary at home as well as helping to build adaptation and resilience in crucial areas like Fraser Island. (Time expired)

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