Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Minchin, the Minister representing the Prime Minister. Is the minister aware of an answer by the Treasurer in question time on 15 February where he acknowledged that Treasury had not modelled the impact of climate change on the Australian economy? Further, is the minister aware of evidence from the Australian Greenhouse Office at estimates a day later where officials said that no work on the impact of cuts to greenhouse gas emissions on the economy had been commissioned by the government in the last two years? Can the minister explain why the government has not undertaken any analysis of climate change on the Australian economy? Doesn’t the government’s failure to undertake such analysis expose it as having been asleep at the wheel on climate change for the last 11 years?