Rachel Siewert's final climate call to Senate: 'History will judge us very harshly'

Harley Dennett
Updated August 26 2021 - 7:29am, first published August 25 2021 - 7:58pm

Thrice-elected to represent Western Australia for the Greens, Senator Rachel Siewert delivered her valedictory speech in Parliament on Wednesday, noting that climate change - a focus of her advocacy on her arrival in Canberra in the mid-2000s - was no closer to being addressed and was now a "code-red" crisis.

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Harley Dennett

Harley Dennett

Public Service Editor

Former federal politics bureau chief for the Canberra Times, via a career that's taken me from rural Victoria to Washington DC. Telling the stories of my local LGBTI community brought me to political journalism, where I've covered eight budgets, four national elections in two countries, Defence, public service and international governance.

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