Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

There is a cost to not taking action on climate change, and we've seen it. Anyone who lives in any of the areas affected by, or who watched any of, the more extreme weather events that have occurred—including all the way up the New South Wales coast and into Queensland, with the flooding event—saw it.

Senator Cash pretends that yesterday's nonvote by her entire team—earlier today, Ms Ley was asked whether or not there was any directive to senators about not attending the vote for net zero yesterday. The Leader of the Opposition's response was that 'we are regularly in touch with senators and we are regularly in touch with members via the whip and via the Manager of Opposition Business'.