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

The Labor Party, with its motions in this parliament to support the closure of coal, are selling out the workers of Australia and also lifting up energy prices. The member for Batman should go back to her electorate and the socialist green collective of which she is a part and tell them that when Labor was last in government they doubled power prices. So the pensioner in Parramatta, the small business worker in Shortland, the cafe owner in Richmond have all paid more for their power bills as a result of the Labor Party's policies.

The Labor Party, when they were last in government, were predicted to miss the 2020 target by 750 million tonnes. We are now on track to beat that by nearly 300 million tonnes. The abatement task for 2030 has improved by 60 per cent in just the last few years. The outlook for emissions reduction is three times better than when the Labor Party were last in office.

The member for Batman and the member for Shortland raised the issue of renewables. There is a record spend on renewables under the Turnbull government. It was even admitted by the member for Port Adelaide's press release of today. We will meet and beat our Renewable Energy Target. Our emissions reduction—

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