Di Natale, Sen Richard

Senator DI NATALE (Victoria—Leader of the Australian Greens) (14:23): Minister, do you agree with the coalmining lobby, who, at the New South Wales bush summit earlier this month, presented themselves as the saviours of drought-stricken communities, despite the fact that their industry, the coal industry, is the major contributor to climate change? As you've accepted that will make droughts more frequent and more severe, isn't that industry making life harder for farmers right across Australia?