Peter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Let's talk about the national interest. You publicly confirmed on Friday that CSIRO's Environment Research Unit on climate, nature, water and oceans is set to bear the brunt of these cuts, with 20 per cent of the unit's staff to be axed—one in five jobs to go, Minister. Aren't climate science and the environment national priorities? You're making big claims that you care about the environment and delivering environmental law reform, but you clearly don't give a fig about the environment, do you? You should be ashamed of this.