Peter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The minister may be aware that the International Energy Agency stated last year that, in order to meet our Paris commitment of 1.5 degrees of warming, we needed to leave all new fossil fuels in the ground and stop all new oil and gas exploration. Yet, following that report and statement, your government issued 80,000 square kilometres of new ocean exploration permits to your oil and gas donors. Are you insane? Were you wilfully ignorant, or simply totally corrupted and captured by the fossil fuel industry?