Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. The Prime Minister's top business adviser, Maurice Newman, says climate change is a UN hoax. The Treasurer's budget speech did not even mention climate change. The budget papers include graphs showing projections for our biggest export commodity, which as Senator Cormann rightly mentioned is iron ore, and for our third biggest, but they conspicuously miss out coal—because coal prices have plummeted as the world shifts to renewables. Why will this government not admit that the age of coal is over?