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

We are meeting and beating our emissions reductions in Australia on our watch, in our time, on budget, without driving up electricity prices. So, at the moment, we have in front of us a target that, on their last explanation, went to 637 million tonnes of domestic emissions. More than that, it was a 13 per cent increase over the course of the time. Under us, we have seen a dramatic drop, and each successive update in accounting has seen that drop.

Let us go to something else: what is the ALP's target, because they like to talk a lot about targets? In a very painful press conference today, we saw the shadow minister unable to announce a target and unable to articulate their position. What we are doing is achieving our targets. More than that, we are delivering a system which is bringing benefits to landowners. We are seeing that two-thirds of the emissions reductions, which are occurring in Australia, are going to domestic abatement. In terms of the land sector: deforestation, reafforestation—

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