Senator WONG (South Australia—Minister for Foreign Affairs and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:48): I will first respond to the State of the climate 2022 report and say, like Senator Waters and, I hope, most people who look at this issue rationally—and I'm afraid that doesn't necessarily include many opposite—that it is a deeply concerning report. It is a report that's released every two years. It shows an increase in extreme heat events and heavy rainfall, longer fire seasons and sea level rises. It shows, as Senator Waters said, Australia's land climate has warmed by an average of 1.47 degrees since national records began in 1910. Senator Rennick: Rubbish! Senator WONG: I heard interjections from the other side, saying, 'Rubbish.' This is the Bureau of Meteorology and the CSIRO. I know you like to suggest they are part of some conspiracy, but this is what the science is telling us. Senator Rennick interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Senator Rennick! Senator WONG: But I'm actually quite pleased with the interjections because it reminds us yet again why the frame that Senator Waters has put to me is not the answer to what we have to deal with. It is not a single industry's fault. It is not a single employer's fault. It is not a single place's fault. We have to engineer a transition of the Australian economy and the global economy, and we have to do that together and we have to do it from government. For years, we have been arguing for this. And I am pleased that we finally have a parliament, in both chambers, which does want to act on climate. I also understand why it is that the Greens political party seeks to make this entirely about one issue. It is about transitioning the whole of the economy, it is about reducing the emissions that we produce and it is part of doing what Minister Bowen did at the Conference of the Parties, which is: being part of a global solution to what is a global problem. And no amount of finger-pointing, domestically, for political purposes, will yield the outcome that we want. (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator Waters, a first supplementary?