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

Thank you, Mr Speaker—and it is always a pleasure to address you appropriately. As for those opposite, what a shabby, shameless bunch of charlatans. I say that because these are the people who wanted to table the document just a few minutes ago, but it seems they have been found out—

Opposition members: You said no!

Well, I am inviting you: go ahead and do it. The opposition are using documentation that is outdated, which today has been updated and shows a reduction over and above that which had already been shown, by an additional 264 million tonnes. Where does that come from? There is 10 million tonnes in additional abatement from the renewable energy target bipartisan agreement; 140 million tonnes from write-downs against business as usual; 92 million tonnes from the first two auctions of the Emissions Reduction Fund; and, on top of that, another 22 million tonnes from the agreement with the Landfill Owners Association. Those opposite will not table the very document that they said was vital to present to this House, because they have been caught out bodgying up the figures. They have trumped up the numbers.

At the end of the day, we are going to meet our targets, we are going to beat our targets and we are going to go to Paris and achieve a global agreement. And I will table our updated figures today.

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