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

by leave—I give notice that, on the next day of sitting, I shall move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes the Flinders University research published in Nature's Scientific Reports, which shows that 'climate change and human activity are dooming species at an unprecedented rate via a plethora of direct and indirect, often synergic, mechanisms';

(b) notes that climate change is, without a doubt, the biggest threat to life on our planet; and

(c) calls on the Federal Government to develop and implement a serious climate and energy policy, with a plan to reduce carbon pollution and overhaul our environmental laws to protect life on earth.

Tim Storer (SA, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—I give notice that, on the next day of sitting, I shall move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

  (i) Australia in blessed with world-class renewable energy and energy storage resources,

  (ii) the price of renewable energy continues to decline, setting new records year on year,

  (iii) utility-scale wind and solar farms are the cheapest form of new-build electricity generation in Australia today,

  (iv) Australia has the highest penetration of rooftop solar in the world, with close to two million households having installed solar systems to help them to reduce their power bills, and

  (v) South Australia's Honesdale Power Reserve, the world's biggest grid connected lithium-ion battery, is showing how new technology can put downward pressure on electricity prices and allow for the successful integration of high levels of wind and solar energy; and

(b) agrees that renewable energy, coupled with energy storage technologies, can provide "fair dinkum power" that is cheap, reliable and clean.