Mr HIBBINS: I desire to move, by leave:
That this house:
(1) notes the link between the recent bushfires, heatwave and drought as human-induced climate change;
and
(2) declares we are in a climate emergency requiring an urgent plan to keep coal and gas in the ground.
Leave refused.
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