House debates Questions without Notice

Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Wednesday, 28 October 2026 House of Representatives

Barnaby Joyce

Barnaby Joyce New England, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party

2:16 pm

My question is to the Prime Minister of the Commonwealth of Australia. Prime Minister, it's quite obvious that we have to reduce the size of government. So why don't we look at getting rid of the climate change department? There's $8.7 billion a year spent on it. It would loosen up 5,700 full-time equivalent positions, which would go through natural attrition. It's got absolutely no prospects whatsoever of changing the climate or anything like that, and getting rid of it would save us from jacking up taxes on capital gains tax for small business, taxing superannuation funds and taxing trusts.

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