Michelle Ananda-Rajah (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the Greens political party for moving this urgency motion, but, I have to ask, what is a climate change risk report going to tell us that we don't already know? We have the Ningaloo Reef undergoing a mass bleaching event. We have a catastrophic algal bloom in South Australia. We have the eastern seaboard flooding every five minutes. We are in the teeth of this climate emergency. There is absolutely nothing, I promise you, in that report that I don't already know, that you don't already know and that all Australians don't already know.

We may not have been in this situation, such a dire situation, had the Greens political party and the Liberals, in 2009, passed the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme.