Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment) Share this | Hansard source

I am dealing with, frankly, the credibility of their previous reports—two fabulously wrong predictions to date. Now, in relation to the next element: the safeguards approach which I want to put forward is very clear. It is a long-term approach. The estimates that we have already set out are that approximately 200 million tonnes of emissions reduction will occur in the period between 2020 and 2030. That was put out at the very time that we set our minus 26 to minus 28 per cent reduction. So we took a carbon tax which was failing to reduce emissions in any significant way and which was driving up—

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