Elizabeth Watson-Brown (Ryan, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

We're hearing lectures about the climate wars. Labor wants to lecture us about the climate while congratulating themselves on what they're doing. Climate wars—Labor is actually waging war on the climate. Every time Labor opens a new coalmine, you wage war on the climate. Every time Labor opens a new gas project and every time Labor lets Santos pay no tax, you wage war on the climate. You are waging war on our planet's future.

So what is Labor's record on climate? Its record includes opening 30 new coal and gas mines in the last term of parliament; abandoning reforms under the previous environment minister, under pressure from big corporations; and, 15 days after being sworn in this term, approving an extension to Woodside's North West Shelf, the largest fossil fuel project in the Southern Hemisphere. It's a cruel joke to pretend that Labor is acting on climate. They're actively acting to make climate change worse. They're actively working to make climate disasters, bushfires, heatwaves and floods worse. They are gaslighting the Australian people who do want action on climate, who do want their homes to be safe—

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