Ralph Babet (Victoria, United Australia Party) Share this | Hansard source

No issue there at all. My question is for the minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Minister Wong. Your government recently lodged a defence in the Federal Court for a claim brought by some Australians from the Torres Strait that the government had breached its duty of care to protect them from that bogeyman, climate change. In your government's defence lodged with the court, government lawyers stated that Australia contributes only a very small proportion of global emissions and that it was not reasonably foreseeable that anyone would suffer loss or damage regardless of any action or inaction taken by Australia on climate change. Minister, do you agree with the government's defence that Australia cannot change the climate?