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

We on this side of the House welcome that question. You know, 'chutzpah' is a wonderful word, and we've seen a wonderful example of it from the opposition today, a party and a coalition which presided over 10 years of denial and delay, which had 23 energy policies and couldn't land one, which can't tell the Australian people what its 2030 target is let alone its 2035 target and which argues that renewable energy should be paused and that we should rely more on coal and gas while we wait decades for nuclear to come forward. They have the temerity to ask this government a question about our policies. We have legislated the Climate Change Act, we have legislated safeguard reforms and we have legislated new vehicle efficiency standards, which the member for Bradfield tried to do and got rolled by his cabinet. We have done what he couldn't deliver. He said he would reduce emissions, but he couldn't get it done. We have gotten it done, and we are continuing to get those things done.

As the Prime Minister has foreshadowed this week, I will release the government's annual climate change statement in accordance with the act. That is world's best practice in terms of transparency and accountability when it comes to emissions reductions reports. I will be releasing the Climate Change Authority's annual progress report, which I've received and will table in the House. It will make clear, together with the government's projections—

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