Mehreen Faruqi (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Minister Ayres, representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. Minister, the Senate committee report on climate risk and insurance premiums, tabled a year ago, found that climate driven disasters are increasing in frequency and intensity, with insurance skyrocketing and becoming unaffordable and unavailable. The national climate risk assessment, which Labor tried to hide, has painted a very dire picture of the future, and just this week new reports are warning of increasing extreme weather and impacts on insurance. Communities are bearing the brunt of the cascading and compounding effects of cost of living, insurance and the climate crisis. Minister, when will your government respond to the recommendations in this report and actually do something for communities on the front lines of the climate crisis?