Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

A number of South Australian senators and MPs were in attendance, too. I understand that there was an update from the ministers in relation to the government's response to the bloom. I know that Minister Watt went to South Australia on 21 July and announced some funding. The Prime Minister also visited, on 20 August, to announce further federal support and to inspect the bloom. Obviously this is an event which, as the Deputy Premier has explained publicly, is not unknown in terms of natural causes, but you would have to say, given what many scientists are saying, that the contribution of climate change to this dreadful event is self-evident.