Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for his question about my speech to the Lowy Institute, from which I understand he doesn't share my views that Australia's national interests should always come first and take priority over the agendas of global institutions. I'm surprised that the member opposite thinks global institutions should be telling the Australian public about what should be happening in this parliament. I make reference to a number of our policy positions that the Australian government has been urged to change.

Mr Albanese interjecting—

I'm happy to name them, Leader of the Opposition. There are those who are overseas who think that our commitment to a 26 per cent reduction in emissions by 2030 should be changed and that it should be higher, and we don't agree. And neither do the Australian people, because we took it to an election and the Australian people supported the re-election of our government on the basis of us going forward with a commitment to a 26 per cent reduction of emissions.

The other thing we recently had was some correspondence from the UN. From the UN we had some correspondence—

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