On June 15th, 2009, Senator Fielding provided Climate Change Minister Wong with three written questions on climate change. Minister Wong agreed to address these questions, first, through discussion at a meeting held between the Senators, ourselves and ministerial science advisers Professor Penny Sackett (Chief Scientist) and Professor Will Steffen (Director, ANU Climate Change Institute). There were also Departmental and staff from each Senator’s office present. At this meeting, an 11-page background paper was presented and discussed by Drs. Sackett and Steffen. Second, the Minister also provided a written reply to Senator Fielding on June 18th. This paper provides a response to both the background presentation paper and to Minister Wong’s written reply, and was released by Senator Fielding’s office on June 26th.