Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Those sorts of events are not being adequately planned for—for example, in our health responses. As Senator Boyce just pointed out, we have seen the impact floods and those sorts of catastrophic events have on human life and the disruption to community. All those issues need to be taken into account. We are not adequately planning. While we continue to have a government that is confused at the very least about whether it is in denial or not—half of them are—we will not be adequately prepared and will continue to see the impacts of these catastrophic events and these extreme weather events.

We need to be acknowledging this and we need to be planning properly.