Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the following matters be referred to the Environment and Communications References Committee for inquiry and report by 20 November 2025:

(a) the Government's secrecy and withholding of the Climate Risk Assessment (the assessment) from the Australian public since December 2024;

(b) the research, consultation and preparation of the assessment by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water;

(c) the expected ongoing impacts upon the Australian community that are contained within the assessment;

(d) the budgetary costs of both climate driven natural disasters and any government adaptation plans;

(e) the Government's ongoing approach to transparency related to reducing emissions and adaptation to a world currently on track for 2.6 to 3.1 degrees of warming; and

(f) any other related matters.