Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—The Australian Greens support the release of the Treasury modelling pertaining to Australia’s Low Pollution Future: The economics of climate change mitigation. We have sought the release of that modelling because we too would like to scrutinise it. That is why we supported this motion. However, I want it also on the record that we have no confidence whatsoever in Dr Brian Fisher from Concept Economics to conduct any kind of fair analysis of the Treasury modelling. Dr Fisher is a climate change sceptic, has been a climate change sceptic, remains a climate change sceptic and was a climate change sceptic as head of ABARE. In my view, he is one significant reason no progress was made on addressing climate change in the years that the Howard government was in power. Whilst we support the laying on the table of the Treasury modelling, we wish to indicate that that decision to support this does not imply any support for any analysis that Dr Fisher may conduct.