Angus Taylor (Hume, Liberal Party, Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying Australia's emissions are down 20 per cent, as you'll see in our transparent reporting—every quarter, every gas, every sector. You'll see in those reports that in the last year alone our National Electricity Market emissions are down over five per cent. That's in a single year, and the reason for that is very clear: we have the highest level of installed solar capacity in the world. We have seven gigawatts that was installed in the last year alone. That's more than in the entire time—the entire six years—that Labor was in government. If you look at our transparent reports, the year before—again, in a single year—there was more solar installation than in the entire time when Labor was in government. That's because we are focused on technology as a means of driving down emissions. Indeed, when those opposite left government their forecasts were for emissions that were expected to be over 100 million tonnes higher than we actually had last year.

We will continue to drive the transparency and outcomes I've just described, because that is the Australian way, but we will do it without taxes. We will do it without wiping out industries. We will do it without wiping out regions. We will do it the Australian way, through innovation, through ingenuity, through $20 billion of investment in clean technology that will continue to drive down emissions. Our transparency will ensure the world can see what an extraordinary job we continue to do, as we have been doing for many, many years.

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