Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Senator McAllister. With reports yesterday of the worst coral loss in 39 years in parts of the Great Barrier Reef, still the Albanese government is saying no 2035 target will be set until advice is received from the Climate Change Authority. Under the Climate Change Act, the minister has to request that this advice be given. The authority can't initiate that advice on its own. My question is: has the minister formally asked the Climate Change Authority for advice, under section 15 of that act, on what Australia's 2035 targets should be?