The Greens are moving to suspend standing orders to discuss why the PM said he’d be participating the the Global Climate Summit, when diplomatic sources revealed Australia wasn’t invited to participate because of our dismal inaction on climate change.
What we need to hear from the Govt is whether the PM misled parliament in response to questions about whether we were invited to the global climate summit or not?
We understand that correspondence has been sent to the PM saying we are not invited to the global climate summit. We call for the Minister representing the PM to attend the Senate at 2pm today to explain whether we have been invited, and table any correspondence.
This govt has got pathetic targets that are paling in comparison to other nations. The BOM says we are on track for 4 degrees warming in this country. The rest of the world is moving and they can see Australia is not.
Australians want action on the climate crisis and they know there is a jobs bonanza in renewables. Does it really take the Greens raising climate action every day for things to get done!?
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BREAKING: I just moved to suspend standing orders to debate my Parliamentary Standards Bill. Women deserve to feel safe and heard in Parliament, as they should in any workplace.
“It is long past time that women in this building feel safe... We’ve called on the PM to show some leadership and to take action. All we’ve heard is that this isn’t his problem, these issues are in the past, and there is a process.”
“Well we took a good look at this process and it’s full of holes. The process does not have any implications for the alleged abuser. There is no power for the Finance dept to actually discipline or have any other consequence for a MP or MOP(s) Act employee...”
ESTIMATES: Earlier today, I had a whole 11 mins to interrogate the Environment Dept on Adani, managing conflicts of interest, New Acland coal mine and the Browse Basin gas pipeline, and the findings were revelatory; a thread:
The Auditor General noted that the Enviro Dept didn't have a policy to deal with conflicts of interests, so the Dept created one. BUT the Dept isn’t looking back in time to see if previous enviro approvals were affected by conflicts, which seems... like a massive oversight imho
Despite Auditor General concerns, the Enviro Dept did NOT develop special additional measures to address conflicts where staff return from secondments - or even ‘placements’ with the Minerals Council writing their policy on watering down enviro laws 😳