House debates

Wednesday, 11 August 2021

Personal Explanations

3:15 pm

Photo of Bill ShortenBill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Morrison has further said, with trademark inaccuracy:

I mean he reckons that 50 per cent of the cars that we all are driving around in 10 years from now will be electric cars.

That isn't what I said.

This week, in fact, President Biden signed an executive order for the exact same target for the same year that I and Labor proposed. Australia has been recently called the 'automotive third world', with less than one in every 100 vehicles on our roads being electric vehicles. The Prime Minister's hostile, belligerent, ill-informed fake news about what I said explains in no part, and reveals, his attitude in taking real action on climate. In fact, the House can rest assured: I drive an electric vehicle these days, and the weekend is still coming up on Saturday.

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