Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy
29 September 2025
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Senate Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy Australian Parliament
16:16 - 18:15
Speaker 1
Hansard, all good? Thank you, senator McLaughlin. So I now declare open this hearing of the Select Committee on Information Integrity on Climate Change and Energy. I begin by acknowledging the traditional custodians of the land on which we meet and pay my respects to their elders past and present. I extend that respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people here today.
The committee will be conducting today's hearing via televideo conference and in person. Committee members attending in person are myself, senator Wish Wilson as the chair, deputy chair, senator Ananda Baraja, senator McLaughlin, and senator Pocock. These are public proceedings being video streamed live via the parliament's website, and a hand side transcript is being made. I remind all Australian based witnesses that in giving evidence to the committee, they are protected by parliamentary privilege. It is unlawful for anyone to threaten or disadvantage a witness on account of evidence given to a committee, and such action may be treated by the senate as a contempt.
It is also a contempt to give false or misleading evidence. Witnesses also have a right to request to be heard in camera. However, I remind overseas witnesses that parliamentary privilege doesn't extend to giving evidence outside of Australia. I remind centers of their obligations under behavioral code for Australian parliamentarians to treat witnesses with dignity, courtesy, fairness, and respect. I'll also remind committee members and witnesses who are appearing via video conference and who are not speaking to mute their microphones.
So it being 07:45AM, I now call the Union of Concerned Scientists and Texas A and M University, and I now welcome via video conference miss Kate Sell of the Union of Concerned Scientists and professor Desla of Texas A and M University. I understand that information on parliamentary privilege and the protection of witnesses giving evidence to senate committees has been provided to you. In particular, that parliamentary privilege does not extend to giving evidence outside Australia. For the Hansard record, will you please state your full name and the capacity in which you appear today? And I might ask you to go first, please, Kate.
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