House debates

Tuesday, 27 October 2009

Questions without Notice

Climate Change

2:14 pm

Photo of Peter GarrettPeter Garrett (Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

We have got interjection after interjection coming from the other side of the House as they are exposed in their total incapacity to recognise the seriousness of this challenge, which has just been confirmed in an inquiry that has been brought down by a House of Representatives standing committee. The member for Gippsland is relaxed about the CPRS legislation: ‘I believe we’ve got time to wait.’ The coalition just do not seem interested in the impacts on the farming sector, on urban communities running out of the water, on coastal communities who are vulnerable to sea level change. They want to delay. They want to do nothing. For the coalition, all that we can say is: the Australian coast is a good place to stick your head in the sand.

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