LNP MP Angie Bell gets to ask a question! It has been a while since Bell has asked one – looks like the LNP state conference reminded the leadership of her existence.

Bell:

How has the government managed to find so many millions of dollars of taxpayer money to fund inner-city cycleways and for bike lanes in Sydney and Grayndler but so much less to support South Australia’s response to be once in a generation ecological event is the devastating algal bloom? Why do countless communities and small businesses in South Australia, many here today, have to pay for the cost of Labor’s in action?

Albanese:

I met with all the councils earlier today and they think the government for the work that we are doing when it comes to South Australia’s algal blooms. This is an ecological event that is directly related directly related to the impacts we are seeing right across our continent of climate change. What we have seen here as floodwaters, floodwaters, come through the Murray-Darling Basin out through the Coorong, into the ocean at a time when nutrient extra nutrients have got into the water, and the water is 2 degrees hotter than it would normally be at this time of the year. At this time of the year.

This is not something that is the result of any single Government actions.

This is some thing that I have met with the South Australian Government on importantly we have provided a range of funding, indeed every piece of funding we have been asked for has been provided. But it is also, but it is also, including $20 million to support the South Australian Government, to not just combat the effects of the algal bloom but improve preparedness for future events.

Now, does anyone think that abolishing our commitment to net zero and action on climate change will make these events more likely, or less likely? To happen in the future. And at a time when those opposite are running a relentless campaign, from some of the National Party, it has even brought the Member relevance again.

There is a very boring point of order.

Albanese:

This issue is directly related to climate change. People that we met this morning, this morning, understand that it is directly related to climate change. The scientists who we met with last week, who are undertaking practical work, practical work, understand that this is directly related to climate change. In those opposite, those opposite are busy, we don’t know whether according to the take of the point of order has said they are having a nine – 12 month experience over whether they will take support for net zero will continue. But it is extraordinary that they are actually becoming more right wing on climate then Scott Morrison was.