Rachel Siewert (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Health, Senator Cash. The 2019-20 bushfires resulted in about 450 deaths due to direct injury and air pollution exposure and they sent thousands of people to hospital emergency departments with respiratory and heart problems. Last November was the hottest November on record. Leading health bodies, including the AMA, the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation, the Australian College of Nursing and the majority of peak medical bodies, have declared climate change a health emergency. Will the government declare the climate crisis a health emergency?