Australia’s progress against the UN’s SustainableDevelopment Goals

摘要

I ’d like to start by acknowledging that we’re on Gadigal country and pay my respects to elders past and present. It’s a great honour to be in front of such an illustrious audi- ence and, as we’ve already heard, the need for the conversation that we’re having has never been greater. We wake up to learn that there are over a million people in rental stress in Australia today, a result of unemployment, rental increases and housing stress. And, of course, we live in a world where we can see before us the environmental and climate issues, particularly in northern Australia at the moment with unprecedented fires. We had unprecedented fires on the south coast of NSW in October, never seen before, and we’re entering into a summer that will be one of our hottest, the continuing trend of extreme climate.