QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator AYRES (New South Wales—Minister for Industry and Innovation and Minister for Science) (14:22): You are right, Senator, to point out that we are embarking on what, for the agricultural community in particular, is going to be a very challenging spring and summer. That is true for not just Australia but many of the countries in the Southern Hemisphere that you see on those maps.

For agriculture and aquaculture, this will be a very challenging period. This government takes our responsibility to the environment, the climate and the climate science very seriously. We take it as our responsibility too, to deliver jobs in northern Tasmania.

That is our job as a responsible government that's actually acting in the Australian interest—not posing for clicks and doing the kind of social media stuff that's of zero consequence in the real world, but delivering real outcomes and delivering real change for Australia.