Climate change
Tom McINTOSH (Eastern Victoria) (18:46): (1951) The iconic emperor penguin is facing extinction within just 75 years, but we know that the Liberals do not care about action on climate change. Victorians under 25 will possibly outlive the entire species of emperor penguins. The years of denial and delay by the Liberals see droughts impact farms and all of us at the supermarkets harder. Fire, flood and wind events raise insurance, costing us all more. And the western Antarctic ice shelf is shrinking, so baby emperor penguins every year are having to go into the water earlier, and their feathers are not developed and they are literally drowning at sea. So while the Liberals are happy to turn their backs on the emperor penguins and do not care about action on climate change, I am proud to be part of a Victorian Labor government that is a world leader, with our target of net zero emissions by 2045 and, in the last year, over 42 per cent of our electricity generated from renewables. Can the Minister for Climate Action please outline what actions the government is taking to continue to rapidly decrease our emissions to ensure a better world for every single one of us and to give the emperor penguins a fighting chance.