Hollie Hughes says climate change is ‘not Australia’s problem’
Shadow assistant minister for climate change, Hollie Hughes, has told ABC’s Afternoon Briefing that climate change is not Australia’s problem.
Yes, she is a shadow assistant minister for climate change, denying that climate change is a problem for Australia.
She had been asked why previous environment minister, Sussan Ley, hadn’t released the Graeme Samuel report when it was handed to her in December, but Hughes decided to respond by discussing mining, farmers and the German Greens.
Here’s what she said:
I honestly can’t comment on that, I don’t know. I haven’t heard that, that is not what I seen. It was released today.
What I am concerned about [is that] Ms Plibersek, the member for Sydney, doesn’t really understand the first thing about agriculture in our country, let alone support mining. And the…