Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

As the Prime Minister said, we have ratified the Paris Agreement, which will leave Australia to reduce its emissions by 26 to 28 per cent by 2030 on 2005 levels. We are doing it with effective policy mechanisms, like the Emissions Reduction Fund—for which the cost per tonne of abatement has been at $12.10—our renewable energy target as well as our National Energy Productivity Plan. The gall of the member for Port Adelaide, who comes from the state of South Australia, to get up at this dispatch box when he is not worried about the fact that his state went into the black. He is not worried about his state, which has the highest electricity prices in the National Electricity Market. This is what the South Australian Council of Social Service said:

We have the highest electricity prices in the nation in South Australia. We have the highest unemployment in South Australia and that's no coincidence.

The Labor Party should know that its ideological—

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