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Legislative Council - Fifty-Third Parliament, Second Session (53-2)
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Climate Change

The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY (Leader of the Opposition) (14:51): Supplementary: will the new—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order! The Leader of the Opposition has the floor.

The Hon. D.W. RIDGWAY: Mr President, chuck them out. Will the new strategy that the minister spoke of, the new state strategy, acknowledge the contribution that modern aquaculture makes to combating the effects of climate variability and reducing carbon dioxide emissions?

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Climate Change) (14:52): The honourable Leader of the Opposition thinks that the strategy has been written the way the Liberals would write it. This is a strategy that is open for consultation, so I invite the honourable member to actually put a comment in, to make some sort of contribution to the process and to this debate. Come and join with us and be part of the solution. Put up your ideas—

Members interjecting:

The PRESIDENT: Order!

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER: —put up all your ideas. Make a submission.

The Hon. D.W. Ridgway: It's what they do now. You don't even know what they do already.

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER: The Leader of the Opposition just wants to play politics the old way, like they have always done it. As I say, things are moving on. The federal government is moving on. These guys opposite do not want to be standing still and looking backwards when the state government and the federal government start to look at a new way forward in terms of climate change.

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