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

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Wong. It looks increasingly unlikely that Australia's bid to host COP31 with Pacific nations will be successful. No arrangement with Turkiye has been reached, and the Turkish leader isn't even responding to our Prime Minister's letters. The Prime Minister and the Minister for Climate Change and Energy are not going to COP30, and the South Australian Premier is not going to COP30. Is the government even trying to pretend that it wants to host this important international climate opportunity, or have your mining mates told you to let it go, just like they told you this morning, through the Minerals Council, to pass the mining fast-track EPBC reforms before Christmas?