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

My question is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, representing the Prime Minister. A new raft of temperature records were broken over this weekend, with an intense and prolonged heatwave in spring. The Bureau of Meteorology has previously advised that your 2030 targets have Australia on track for upwards of four degrees of warming. So, even if you meet and beat your targets, Australia will experience heatwaves growing in frequency and intensity every single year, destroying crops, killing more coral, shutting down workplaces and claiming lives. Will the government lift its 2030 target in order to meet what the science requires?