David Shoebridge (NSW, Australian Greens) | Hansard source

We are living through the opening scenes of a disaster movie right now: the hottest month ever recorded, global ocean currents collapsing, Antarctic sea ice missing, fires across Europe and North America. And the villains are there too: the billionaires accumulating ever more wealth, no matter the human and environmental costs; the politicians saying we can't afford climate action, while shovelling public money at rapacious fossil fuel companies; the media outlets telling people that climate solutions include getting used to the heat. In the context of global boiling, no new coal and gas is the essential first step. When the situation is this bad, not making it worse is hardly bloody radical; it's the bare minimum.

Our children can't afford the cost of another dirty coalmine or another stinking gas field. They can't afford the greed of fossil fuel corporations. They can't afford a weak government. No new coal. No new gas.