Page 3304 - Week 09 - Wednesday, 21 August 2019

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The opposition will not be supporting the minister’s amendment, as it fails to give the certainty to those rural leaseholders and those rural businesses that they so need and so desire and so deserve.

Question put:

That the amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Amendment agreed to.

MR RATTENBURY (Kurrajong—Minister for Climate Change and Sustainability, Minister for Corrections and Justice Health, Minister for Justice, Consumer Affairs and Road Safety and Minister for Mental Health) (5.07), by leave: I move:

Insert new paragraphs (1)(g) to (j):

“(g) the climate modelling that shows that the accumulative impacts of climate change are affecting local weather patterns, resulting in more frequent extreme weather events for the ACT and surrounding region;

(h) the global scientific consensus is that climate change is occurring due to human made carbon emissions;

(i) the ACT Legislative Assembly recently acknowledged that we are in a state of climate emergency that requires urgent actions across all levels of Government; and

(j) primary producers and agriculture businesses on the world’s driest continent are being directly impacted by the impacts of climate change and, in coming years, governments will need to continue to support further work to shift some agricultural production methods to adapt to further droughts; and”.

Amendment agreed to.

Original question, as amended, resolved in the affirmative.

Water—quality

MR WALL (Brindabella) (5.08): I fix the next day of sitting for the moving of this motion, at the request of Ms Lawder and pursuant to standing order 127.

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