Dr WOODRUFF question to PREMIER, Mr ROCKLIFF
Every day we hear more deeply disturbing stories about the pace of global climate heating. In lutruwita/Tasmania, we are logging and burning forests, destroying habitat and carbon stores, emitting tonnes and tonnes of greenhouse gases and burning animals alive.
This week you are undertaking a cabinet reshuffle. Will you commit to reinstating a Minister for Climate Change, and given the desperate state of climate and biodiversity and the massive impact this is having on future Tasmanians, will you take on this most important portfolio as Premier?
The SPEAKER – I will call the Premier as the question goes to the broader community interest on portfolios.
ANSWER
Honourable Speaker, I thank the Dr Woodruff for her question and her great interest in the portfolio responsibilities of our team today, I must say. We will be working through this matter over the next days, next week. I am blessed with the very capable team that we have assembled behind me, who are very diligent, hardworking and committed people. Irrespective of the roles that people have on our team, they work very, very hard for their electorates. They will continue to do so and the ministerial responsibilities, including naming of portfolios, will be announced within the week.
SUPPLEMENTARY QUESTION
Dr WOODRUFF – A supplementary question, Speaker?
The SPEAKER – I will hear it, but I am not sure –
Dr WOODRUFF – I did not hear the Premier mention the words climate change. Is climate change a matter that you will consider as worthy of a portfolio position?
The SPEAKER – I think the Premier has answered it in that they will be announcing it. I cannot really ask him to add any more to that question at the moment, Dr Woodruff.
