Brett Whiteley (Braddon, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for the Environment. Minister, I have been holding a number of community forums in my electorate, and many of my constituents in Braddon are very keen to know if Australia will meet or, in fact, beat its 2020 emissions reduction target ahead of the Paris conference, and how the Emissions Reduction Fund will contribute to this effort.

Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Braddon for that question and I congratulate him on his community 'cuppers'; I understand that they are popular and well attended. I want to deal with the announcement today, but before doing that I might do something unusual and invite the Leader of the Opposition to table the document he was holding before. I have a suspicion it might be an outdated set of projections, because today we released a new set of projections and those projections show a reduction of 264 million tonnes—264 million tonnes in net abatement—compared with what was put out in our March projections. So the invitation is there: table the very thing that you seemed to be quoting from before—

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

You said no!

Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

because I think those opposite have wilfully, deliberately used a set of figures in this House whilst knowing that it was outdated. What a shabby, shameless bunch of charlatans these folks are—a shabby, shameless bunch of charlatans. Table the document. Come on. Give us the material. If you are confident, you should not have a problem with tabling them. But I think, Prime Minister, that they are knowingly using outdated material.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker—

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The minister will resume his seat.

Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Have you got the document? Come on.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The minister does not have the call.

Mr Mitchell interjecting—

The member for McEwen has already been warned.

Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

This is a bit embarrassing, hey, Albo?

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Minister for the Environment will cease interjecting. The member for McEwen has already been warned. It is late in question time, but not too late. The member for Grayndler—

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker—

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

on a point of order?

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Indeed—and I rise in defence of you, Mr Speaker.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

On a point of order?

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes, on a point of order. The minister keeps conveying the idea that you have to take certain action, Mr Speaker.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Grayndler will resume his seat.

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

And I am very concerned—

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Grayndler does not have the call.

Mr Hunt interjecting—

I have not called the minister yet.

Mr Hunt interjecting—

Minister, I have not called you yet! The minister will refer to people by their correct titles. The minister has the call.

Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Speaker—and it is always a pleasure to address you appropriately. As for those opposite, what a shabby, shameless bunch of charlatans. I say that because these are the people who wanted to table the document just a few minutes ago, but it seems they have been found out—

Opposition members: You said no!

Well, I am inviting you: go ahead and do it. The opposition are using documentation that is outdated, which today has been updated and shows a reduction over and above that which had already been shown, by an additional 264 million tonnes. Where does that come from? There is 10 million tonnes in additional abatement from the renewable energy target bipartisan agreement; 140 million tonnes from write-downs against business as usual; 92 million tonnes from the first two auctions of the Emissions Reduction Fund; and, on top of that, another 22 million tonnes from the agreement with the Landfill Owners Association. Those opposite will not table the very document that they said was vital to present to this House, because they have been caught out bodgying up the figures. They have trumped up the numbers.

At the end of the day, we are going to meet our targets, we are going to beat our targets and we are going to go to Paris and achieve a global agreement. And I will table our updated figures today.

Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

After that detailed, diligent and dazzling answer, I ask that further questions be placed on the Notice Paper.