Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction. Minister, the world has witnessed and experienced extreme weather in the last few months. We've had flooding, bushfires and heatwaves across Europe, the US, China and India. We, of course, had our own climate fires here in Australia as well. We are facing code red when it comes to our climate and the health of our planet. So why, in this climate crisis, is the Morrison government—and the Labor Party—spending millions of public dollars propping up and opening up new gas fields, like in the Beetaloo basin, which will only increase emissions by six per cent and make climate change worse?