Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

ator WATT (—) (): Thank you, Senator Smith. I know that you're very concerned, along with Senator Grogan, Senator Wong and Senator Farrell, about the flooding that we're beginning to see in South Australia. We're all very concerned about what might lie ahead for your state, and we'll certainly be there with you all.

Today, the Minister for Industry and Science, Ed Husic, and the Minister for the Environment and Water, Tanya Plibersek, released the State of the climate 2022 report, and it is an extremely sobering read. This report, prepared by two of Australia's leading climate research agencies, the CSIRO and the Bureau of Meteorology, found that changes to whether and climate extremes are happening—