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

The projection that we provided to COP26 is that we will have a 35 per cent reduction in emissions on our 2005 levels. We're already at 20.8 per cent below our 2005 levels, which exceeds so many other countries, like the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Korea and many more. The Australian achievement on reducing our emissions, particularly for economies such as ours, has occurred at the same time as we've seen the largest expansion of our LNG industry. Our government is delivering on reducing emissions but at the same time ensuring that we're seeing electricity prices fall. Our policy is about technology, not taxes. Those opposite are interested in taxes; we're interested in technology. They reject our policy, which is for technology, not taxes. That's what our policy is. They're not for that. Our policy is for people to have choices, not to be told what do to do by the government when it comes to what they want to buy and what they want to drive. That's our policy. We want choices, not mandates. Those opposite are opposing our policy. Our policy is to have a portfolio of technologies, whether it's hydrogen or carbon capture, use and storage. We want to see the funds from ARENA and other important government programs that can invest in these. The Labor Party are against it because they voted against carbon capture and storage. To all of those up in the Hunter, all of those who work in the aluminium sector and all of those who work in the minerals industry, the Labor Party voted against us spending resources on— (Time expired)

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