Mitch Fifield (Victoria, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

The Australian government stands firm in its support of our friends in the Pacific who have been impacted by Cyclone Pam. Australia has provided in excess of $8.5 million in initial emergency humanitarian assistance to deal with the crisis. This is in addition to the $60.4 million in development assistance we will provide to Vanuatu in 2014-15. The Australian government is acting decisively on climate change. The government is committed to reducing Australia's carbon emissions by five per cent below 2000 levels by 2020. This target is comparable with other advanced economies and that put forward by the opposition. In contrast to our colleagues opposite, we obviously did not support their mechanism for dealing with this matter.

Question agreed to.