Mr Adam Bandt House of Representatives on Item STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS – Climate Change(Melbourne—Leader of the Australian Greens): The Prime Minister needs to take climate science as seriously as he’s taking the coronavirus science. Our summers are now twice as long as our winters in Australia. The climate crisis is hitting us now. It’s devastating Australia and it’s devastating the economy.
It’s time to understand that this is an urgent problem and we need climate action now—not in 2050, not in 2040, but right now. It is only going to get worse. What Australia has experienced this summer will pale in comparison to what is to come. The Prime Minister is putting Australian lives at risk. We need to start responding to the climate crisis the same way we are responding to the coronavirus, the way countries responded in World War II when there was the threat of invasion. The climate crisis needs a whole-of-government, whole-of-parliament and whole-of-society effort.