Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the minister for his response and I ask a supplementary question. The minister has indicated that the legislation will be brought back into the Senate. I have been asked questions by the media and they are of this nature. What is the government’s priority? Is it to have that legislation, unchanged, brought before the Senate and tested again or is its priority to get legislation through the parliament which is going to get on with the job of tackling climate change? I ask the minister: has the Prime Minister indicated whether he intends that the government will remain to have the lowest targets of the government, coalition and Greens or is the government prepared to look at improving the targets for greenhouse gas emission reductions by 2020 as part of the process of getting a real package of legislation tackling climate change through the Senate and through the parliament before Christmas?