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Senator AYRES (New South Wales—Minister for Industry and Innovation and Minister for Science) (14:55): There is an emerging convergence here, I notice, between One Nation and the Greens political party in dismissing the importance of international frameworks. That is true. It's sort of interesting.

But I think most Australians want to see credible action on climate change. They want to see international progress, because they accept the science. I know you and your colleagues don't accept the science.

I know that most of these characters over here don't accept the science, but science is a real thing. I know you say it's not. I say to you: it is an incontrovertible fact that increased carbon emissions in the atmosphere are causing temperatures to rise.

That is a real question that hard-headed people must engage with in an adult kind of way. That means that our industries are up for the challenge— (Time expired)