Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Hansard source

The government already has a plan. The Australian Health Protection Principal Committee, AHPPC, has identified climate change as a health protection priority and asked the Environmental Health Standing Committee and the National Health Emergency Standing Committee to undertake that work. Further, the government's draft of the national preventive health strategy recognises the environmental detriments to health of climate change and extreme weather events.