Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for that question—I really do!—because it gives me an opportunity to remind the honourable member and remind the House of our plans to get us to 82 per cent renewables by 2030 and of our plans to reduce emissions by 43 per cent by 2030. And, yes, I thank the honourable member for quoting my speeches. He's welcome to do it as much as he likes!

I was making the point in that speech that we have a lot of catching up to do after a decade of denial and delay. We are walking out to the crease late in the match, because we are making up for a decade of doing nothing when they were in office, so now we have to work faster to reduce emissions by 2030. And, yes, those figures I quoted were correct. They underline the size of the task. They underline the size of the task of transmission, and I welcome questions on transmission, because this government has delivered a deal with the government of Tasmania and the government of Victoria. Those opposite talked about it for six years, and we delivered it in six months. You are going to see more of that type of action tonight, tomorrow and next week as well.

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