Gavin Marshall (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I ask the minister to also confirm that, in the absence of the VRET and the New South Wales based renewable energy scheme, Australia will go backwards in terms of the proportion of energy coming from renewable sources in the period to 2020. When so many other countries are committing to higher renewable energy targets, why has the Howard government refused to lift its two per cent MRET?