George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

The integrity of Australia's reporting on emissions reductions has not been called into question by any credible authority. You seem, by your question, to suggesting that because of an alteration to pass policies there may be some reason to call that accounting into question. I do not see that that is the case. If so, that is an observation for the future.

However, it remains the case—and you have not disputed it in anything you have said in this period of questions—that of the 19 other G20 nations Australia's emissions reduction targets, judged on a per capita basis, are more ambitious than 18 others. They are more ambitious than 18 of the 19. You say they should be more ambitious still, but in comparative terms they are among the most ambitious in the world. (Time expired)