Senate debates

Monday, 11 November 2019

Questions without Notice

Australian Bushfires

2:40 pm

Photo of Bridget McKenzieBridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

I'm very happy to put on the record how seriously our government is treating climate change and its impact when it comes to natural disasters. As I was saying, $130.5 million to meet the need for authoritative climate and disaster risk information. We've got pilot projects in the supply chain and freight sector to be completed in 2019. We've published tools to support all decision-makers to take better account of disasters when they make decisions that affect our communities across all sectors of society, and we've got the Australian Disaster Preparedness Framework for severe to catastrophic disasters, which is a framework where we work with others to actually ensure it rolls out— (Time expired)

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