Adam Bandt (Melbourne, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. The climate crisis is hitting the economy hard with agriculture and tourism bearing the brunt, and now the coronavirus is hurting us as well. This is on top of the underemployment crisis in our country, plus wage stagnation and an inequality crisis. With a real risk that the economy is heading towards recession and the Reserve Bank is running out of bullets, will you back a green new deal to fight the threat of recession? Specifically, will you lift public sector wages to boost wage growth across the economy, lift Newstart by at least $95 a week to lift retail spending and invest $6 billion to remove the grid bottlenecks holding back renewable investments and grow construction and manufacturing jobs?

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