QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator WATERS (Queensland—Leader of the Australian Greens) (14:24): On the very day your resources minister was in the NT cutting the ribbon on Tamboran's enormous Beetaloo gas fracking project, Australia's Bureau of Meteorology warned about the upcoming super El Nino. Can you explain to the Australian people who are waking up to bushfire warnings today and preparing for a deadly summer ahead why you are continuing to put corporate profits of the big polluters ahead of the safety of people and nature.