Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

In due deference to and out of the great respect we have for the many people affected by the tragedies in New South Wales, Victoria and the Northern Territory, I will resist providing a political answer, except to say that if you listen carefully to what I said in response to the primary question, I made the point that not only are we talking about climate change; our government is taking effective action against climate change. As such, the premise of your question is false, and if you had listened more carefully to the answer to the primary question, you would have adjusted your supplementary question accordingly.