Richard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) | Hansard source

My question is to the Special Minister of State, Senator Cormann. Over 2,000 Australian businesses have registered at the website This is not business as usual, and that number is growing by the minute. These companies are supporting their employees in taking time off work to go and join tomorrow's worldwide climate strike to tell governments to stop pretending that everything's going to be okay. They're saying to all of us in this place that it's time to confront the frightening climate emergency that's unfolding. Minister, will you, as the minister responsible for the Public Service, guarantee that there will be no retribution or punishment against any Commonwealth public servant who leaves work to attend the strike?