Josh Wilson's recent appearances (OpenAustralia.org)
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date: 2026-02-10T22:05:32+00:00
items: Bondi Beach Attack Victims | Condolences | House debates
items: Excise Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025, Customs Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Energy Regulator Separation) Bill 2025; Third Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Energy Regulator Separation) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Housing, Renewable Energy | Constituency Statements | House debates
items: Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Board of Management Functions) Bill 2025; Third Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Board of Management Functions) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Address-in-Reply | Governor-General's Speech | House debates
items: Environment | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
items: Rearrangement | Business | House debates
items: Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Energy Regulator Separation) Bill 2024; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Energy Regulator Separation) Bill 2024; Third Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Bill 2024; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
items: Climate Change | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
items: Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin Charges) Bill 2024; Third Reading | Bills | House debates

Bondi Beach Attack Victims | Condolences | House debates
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description: Above all else, I express my deepest condolence and sorrow. I bring to this place the heartfelt sympathy of the Fremantle electorate community for the victims, and for the families and friends of...
encoded: Above all else, I express my deepest condolence and sorrow. I bring to this place the heartfelt sympathy of the Fremantle electorate community for the victims, and for the families and friends of the victims, of the appalling terrorist attack at Bondi on 14 December last year. It was an attack that targeted Jewish Australians celebrating the first day of Hanukkah, an observance with the triumph of light over darkness as its theme and a tradition that, when practised here, occurs in the brightness of summer. Of course, it originates in the Northern Hemisphere, where it spans the winter solstice—the shortest day and the longest night—as the year turns from coldness and suffering towards warmth and renewal again. From that awful tragedy—from its cruelty, bigotry, madness and violence—Australia embarks on that difficult but necessary journey towards healing through grief and compassion, and towards the renewal of our core values through our unity of purpose. It is unimaginably tragic and against everything that Australia stands for that 87-year-old Alex Kleytman should survive the Holocaust and yet have his life ended by antisemitic violence at Bondi Beach. It is heroically wonderful and a personification of the Australian experience and character at its best that Ahmed al-Ahmed, a Syrian refugee, stood up to violent terrorism, taking a grave risk and being shot himself in order to save the lives of others. Earlier today there was a gathering co-hosted by the members for Kingsford-Smith and Wentworth to honour the contributions of the surf lifesaving community on that terrible day. The president of the Bondi surf club, Liz Webb, reminded us that there were 10 minutes of awful gunfire, but that, in every minute since that time, Australians have reached out to support the victims and their families, to support those injured and traumatised, and to support the broader Australian Jewish community. The fact that there has never been a method or a means, be it secular or divi…
date: 2026-01-19T18:55:00+00:00

Excise Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025, Customs Tariff Amendment (Draught Beer) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: One of our first conversations was about your collection.
encoded: One of our first conversations was about your collection.
date: 2025-11-03T18:27:00+00:00

Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Energy Regulator Separation) Bill 2025; Third Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
encoded: by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
date: 2025-11-03T17:39:00+00:00

Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Energy Regulator Separation) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I thank honourable members for their contributions to the debate on the Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Energy Regulator Separation) Bill 2025. The bill seeks to establish a...
encoded: I thank honourable members for their contributions to the debate on the Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Energy Regulator Separation) Bill 2025. The bill seeks to establish a legally separate Australian Energy Regulator—the AER, as distinct from the ACCC—to provide greater management and financial autonomy for our energy regulator, enhancing its ability to manage resources and set its strategic direction. This will allow the AER to respond with agility to changing energy needs and focus with greater clarity on energy security, reliability and affordability for energy consumers. This reform will enhance Australia's energy market governance arrangements, contributing to a strong and independent energy regulator that will ensure energy consumers across Australia are better off for many years to come, and I commend this bill to the House. Question agreed to. Bill read a second time.
date: 2025-11-03T17:37:00+00:00

Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Energy Regulator Separation) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I present the explanatory memorandum to this bill and move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill marks a significant step in our commitment to improve regulatory outcomes in the...
encoded: I present the explanatory memorandum to this bill and move: That this bill be now read a second time. This bill marks a significant step in our commitment to improve regulatory outcomes in the energy sector, by ensuring dedicated governance and accountability structures that are tailored specifically to energy market regulation. The intention of this bill is to amend the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 to separate the Australian Energy Regulator (the AER) from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (the ACCC), establishing the AER as a non-corporate Commonwealth entity with operational control of its staff, resources and governance arrangements. The AER is the independent regulator of wholesale and retail energy markets and energy networks, mainly across southern and eastern Australia, under national energy laws and rules. Its key activities include energy network regulation, compliance and enforcement, and the performance monitoring and reporting of energy wholesale and retail markets as well as network businesses. Taken together, that is an incredibly important function—as perfectly well expressed in the AER's purpose, which is 'to ensure energy consumers are better off, now and in the future'. The AER currently operates as a constituent part of the ACCC. Both organisations are a single Commonwealth entity for the purpose of the finance law. The AER shares staff, resources and facilities with the ACCC—and as a result, the AER board, which is responsible for regulatory functions, does not have direct control over resources and staff, which remain under the ACCC's authority. This proposed amendment to legally separate the AER from the ACCC will remove the governance risks that hinder the AER's ability to manage its increasing regulatory responsibilities effectively. It will enable the AER to operate effectively as an independent entity. The bill will not change the key elements of the Australian Energy Market Agreement—such as the role and function of …
date: 2025-10-30T16:14:00+00:00

Housing, Renewable Energy | Constituency Statements | House debates
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description: The Albanese government is delivering the largest investment in new affordable housing since the postwar housing boom. As part of that work, we're supporting priority social and community housing...
encoded: The Albanese government is delivering the largest investment in new affordable housing since the postwar housing boom. As part of that work, we're supporting priority social and community housing projects across Fremantle, East Fremantle and Cockburn, in my electorate, through the Social Housing Accelerator. That includes projects in White Gum Valley, Treeby, Hamilton Hill, Fremantle, North Coogee, and Coolbellup. This new housing is being complemented by a number of other key measures. For example, we've increased Commonwealth rent assistance by more than 40 per cent, we've introduced a new Commonwealth shared-equity scheme and we've provided strong incentives through the build-to-rent program and the expanded five per cent home deposit scheme for first home buyers, which will save thousands of dollars for those seeking to buy a new home. We know the availability of affordable housing has reached crisis levels, and that's why we've provided $43 billion in record funding across a range of programs to deliver more dedicated social and community housing and more support for renters and first home buyers. The Albanese Labor government knows that household solar energy and battery storage is also making a big difference to Australia's clean energy transition, and we're leading that transition because it represents Australia's strongest and most sustainable future. We've already seen a 45 per cent increase in renewable energy generation since the election of the Albanese government, and of course about half of Australia's renewable energy actually now comes from home solar. At the beginning of the Rudd Labor government, back in 2007, only one in 1,000 homes had solar PV. But, thanks to the sustained effort of two Labor governments, now one in three Australian homes benefit from home solar, and in WA it is two in five homes. Australia has become the world leader in distributed solar energy, and now we're working to make sure that generation is matched with battery storage…
date: 2025-09-03T09:39:00+00:00

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Board of Management Functions) Bill 2025; Third Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
encoded: by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
date: 2025-09-03T18:58:00+00:00

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Board of Management Functions) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I thank all members who have contributed to this debate. The government is committed to providing traditional owners with greater control over the management of their country. This Environment...
encoded: I thank all members who have contributed to this debate. The government is committed to providing traditional owners with greater control over the management of their country. This Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Board of Management Functions) Bill 2025 will contribute to that goal. It will allow the boards of management of jointly managed Commonwealth reserves to continue making decisions after a management plan expires, provided those decisions are consistent with the plan. This would maintain the board's decision-making ability until the new management plan comes into effect. This bill supports participation by traditional owners in matters relating to the management of their country, continuity of decision-making and consistency of governance arrangements for Commonwealth reserve management. In relation to the second reading amendment moved by the member for Ryan, the government won't be supporting the motion. This bill is a standalone and time critical to the EPBC Act. It's unconnected to broader reforms being progressed separately at this time. The government is committed to delivering environmental and cultural heritage law reforms in this term of government. The Minister for the Environment and Water is working in partnership with the First Nations Heritage Protection Alliance and consulting with First Nations stakeholders, conservation and environmental organisations and industry. I thank the members for their contribution and commend the bill to the House.
date: 2025-09-03T18:55:00+00:00

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Board of Management Functions) Bill 2025; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I move: That this bill be now read a second time. First Nations people have been looking after country for tens of thousands of years. They have an enduring connection to the land, sea and sky....
encoded: I move: That this bill be now read a second time. First Nations people have been looking after country for tens of thousands of years. They have an enduring connection to the land, sea and sky. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples have cared for country and been a significant part of shaping the environment and supporting the remarkable, unique biodiversity we experience in Australia today. Their knowledge, connection to place and cultural practices have contributed to the positive environmental outcomes that benefit all Australians. Our jointly managed Commonwealth reserves—Kakadu National Park, Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park and Booderee National Park—are located on Aboriginal land. The traditional owners of that land are actively involved in the protection of the environment through participation in the management of their land—spaces which both sustain and share the experience of Australia's biodiversity and cultural landscapes. These reserves are managed by the Director of National Parks under a lease with Indigenous people and through a board of management with majority traditional owner representation. Each of the boards of management is currently chaired by a traditional owner. These boards are responsible for making decisions about the management of Commonwealth reserves. However, their ability to make decisions stops when a management plan expires. If that occurs, the role of traditional owners in the decision-making processes is removed, reducing that critical involvement in the management of their land. This bill will address and overcome this limitation through a minor technical amendment to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999. The bill will allow the board to continue making decisions after a management plan expires, provided those decisions are consistent with the expired management plan, just as they would have been consistent with the management plan while it was afoot. This is a sensible change that will maint…
date: 2025-08-27T09:32:00+00:00

Address-in-Reply | Governor-General's Speech | House debates
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description: It is near Cockburn, Member for Bruce. We delivered that battery. It's one of five new community batteries in WA, adding to the 13 that are already there. It's, obviously, one of 400 that we're...
encoded: It is near Cockburn, Member for Bruce. We delivered that battery. It's one of five new community batteries in WA, adding to the 13 that are already there. It's, obviously, one of 400 that we're delivering nationwide through the $200 million community batteries program. We've made such great strides when it comes to the delivery of renewable energy. As I said, we've already increased it by more than 45 per cent just in the three-and-a-bit years since this government was elected. But we need storage to match. We are leaving no stone unturned when it comes to increasing the ability of Australian households and Australian businesses—and our system as a whole—to soak up that abundant and, at certain times of the day, virtually free solar energy and then to reuse it at peak times to bring system costs down and reduce prices for households. As I conclude this speech, I want to pay respect to the tens of thousands of Australians Australia-wide who got out on the weekend and showed support for the people who have been suffering in Gaza, showed support for peace and showed their commitment to nonviolence, as we witness the humanitarian catastrophe that has been occurring in the Middle East. I'm glad to be part of a government that, from the beginning, rejected the violence that began on October 7 with that barbaric attack but has also rejected the unnecessary conduct that has resulted in the death of more than 60,000 civilians in Gaza, most of whom are women and children, and the unnecessary, unconscionable, intolerable, unacceptable suffering that's occurred through the deprivation of humanitarian aid from earlier this year. In relation to that conflict, the Australian government will do what we've done in the past. It's true to our values. It's true to our national character. We've done the same thing in relation to the violence and dispossession experienced by the Rohingya in Myanmar and in relation to the illegal and immoral invasion of Ukraine, and that is to say that vi…
date: 2025-08-25T19:19:00+00:00

Address-in-Reply | Governor-General's Speech | House debates
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description: I'm glad, grateful and humbled to be able to continue my work as the member for Fremantle in this place, and to continue my work as a member of the Albanese government; it is resolute in its...
encoded: I'm glad, grateful and humbled to be able to continue my work as the member for Fremantle in this place, and to continue my work as a member of the Albanese government; it is resolute in its focus on working with the broader Australian community to make Australia a fairer and more sustainable nation. I do that by bringing my Fremantle values to that work. Those are things that my community has been part of working towards for a long period of time. My community has a commitment to the things that we share. They are the most important things. They include fair working conditions and the social safety net. They include proper protection for our environment. They include public goods, like health and education and like community infrastructure—all of the things that we share and that we have a responsibility to protect, maintain and advance together. The Albanese government has wasted no time in picking up that work again with the strong endorsement of the Australian people. From the very first sittings of this parliament, we acted quickly to reduce by 20 per cent the debt owed by people who have studied at university or at TAFE through HECS. We moved very quickly to legislate penalty rates so that working people are properly compensated when they're asked to work at times that we otherwise get to spend with our families or we get to spend in our community. We moved quickly to reduce the maximum price of medicines on the PBS. The PBS, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme, is one of the great Labor reforms, one of the great foundational building blocks of our shared wellbeing. We have moved to bring the maximum price of medicines on the PBS back to $25, a level that was last experienced in 2004. We have done those things because of our enduring commitment to positive change, because of our enduring commitment to social equality and social inclusion, because of the work of antidiscrimination and the work of environmental protection. Minister Murray Watt, the Minister for t…
date: 2025-08-25T19:19:00+00:00

Environment | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
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description: Deputy Speaker, what the member for Moncrieff said is untrue. They never introduced any legislation to deliver reforms of the EPBC Act. They never introduced that legislation. For the shadow...
encoded: Deputy Speaker, what the member for Moncrieff said is untrue. They never introduced any legislation to deliver reforms of the EPBC Act. They never introduced that legislation. For the shadow minister for the environment to suggest that they did and that we blocked it is not just collective amnesia. It's not just the Men in Black mind-cleansing device. It is an untruth. They didn't do anything when Graeme Samuel gave them the blueprint to reform our failed national environmental protection framework. We will not make that mistake. We will not neglect our obligation to the Australian people. We will not fail to be the proper stewards of Australia's remarkable environmental condition and biodiversity. We will do the job you never had the courage or strength or resolve to do as a priority of the work of the Albanese Labor government.
date: 2025-07-24T15:44:00+00:00

Environment | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
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description: That's rubbish, Angie! You never introduced anything, and you know that. You introduced—
encoded: That's rubbish, Angie! You never introduced anything, and you know that. You introduced—
date: 2025-07-24T15:44:00+00:00

Environment | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
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description: Deputy Speaker Claydon, congratulations on your return to that role. It's good to be back in the first week of a new parliament. We come to the new parliament with a hope, on behalf of the...
encoded: Deputy Speaker Claydon, congratulations on your return to that role. It's good to be back in the first week of a new parliament. We come to the new parliament with a hope, on behalf of the Australian community, that all of us return here with a commitment to work with a sense of shared purpose, and there's no more important area for us to apply that shared purpose than the protection of our environment and action on climate change. I waited for 10 minutes to hear a commitment from the shadow minister to reforming Australia's national environmental protection framework. I waited for 10 minutes to hear the shadow minister say anything about their commitment to taking action on climate change and their commitment to net zero—and we know that, all week, parts of the coalition have been tearing themselves apart in a desperate attempt to throw that commitment into the bin. But we got 10 minutes of nothing. I was glad to hear that the shadow minister for the environment is concerned about the algal bloom in South Australia. That's a concern that is entirely shared by the Australian government. That's why the Minister for the Environment and Water went there as a priority. That's why we've already committed $14 million; that's been matched by the South Australian government. It follows the $25 million we invested, in the previous term, in science that is specifically dedicated to the restoration of environmental conditions in the Great Southern Reef, and the $5½ million we committed through the National Environmental Science Program. We know that that algal bloom is influenced by climate change. We are a government that takes climate change seriously. We are a government that increased Australia's emission reduction commitment by more than 50 per cent the very instant we were elected in 2022. One of the first things we did in the new parliament in 2022 was to legislate net zero by 2050. The coalition are on the verge of abandoning their grudging commitment to net zero as we…
date: 2025-07-24T15:44:00+00:00

Rearrangement | Business | House debates
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description: WILSON (—) (): I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 5, government business, be postponed until the next sitting. Question agreed to.
encoded: WILSON (—) (): I move: That business intervening before order of the day No. 5, government business, be postponed until the next sitting. Question agreed to.
date: 2025-03-27T17:45:00+00:00

Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Energy Regulator Separation) Bill 2024; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I thank honourable members for their contributions to the debate on the Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Energy Regulator Separation) Bill 2024. The bill seeks to establish a...
encoded: I thank honourable members for their contributions to the debate on the Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Energy Regulator Separation) Bill 2024. The bill seeks to establish a legally separate Australian Energy Regulator, the AER, as distinct from the ACCC to provide greater management and financial autonomy for our energy regulator, enhancing its ability to manage resources and set its strategic direction. This will allow the AER to respond with agility to changing energy consumer needs and to focus with greater clarity on energy security, reliability and affordability for energy consumers. It's a reform that was supported by three separate ministerial council processes or inquiries during the time of the previous three-term, nine-year coalition government. It's an utterly sensible reform that the previous government didn't manage to deliver. As I say, what it will mean is that the AER can do an even better job when it comes to delivering energy security, reliability and affordability for energy consumers. To pick up on the contribution to the debate made by the member for New England, the member took the opportunity to range widely on a whole series of aspects of—I don't really know what, to be honest—energy, perhaps, to some degree, the economy more broadly and various other things. It is hard to hear someone talk about the dignity of human beings when they were a member of a government that inflicted robodebt on the poorest and most vulnerable Australians and when they were part of a government that led to the share of income for ordinary working Australians falling to the lowest level in Australian history, and they now propose to inflict the most expensive form of energy on all Australians, paid for entirely by taxpayers, in a way that will put serious imposts on precisely the people that the member for New England claims to represent. It is a bit hard to hear that lecture. The reform we're making with this bill, which was recommended, as I said, …
date: 2025-02-06T10:27:00+00:00

Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Energy Regulator Separation) Bill 2024; Third Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
encoded: by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
date: 2025-02-06T16:13:00+00:00

Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Bill 2024; Second Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: I'm glad to speak on the Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Bill 2024 and to follow such a great contribution from my friend, the member for Macnamara, and before him the members for Bruce and...
encoded: I'm glad to speak on the Criminal Code Amendment (Hate Crimes) Bill 2024 and to follow such a great contribution from my friend, the member for Macnamara, and before him the members for Bruce and Spence. As the member for Macnamara said—I think quite rightly—none of us, as legislators, particularly want to spend time focused on legislation like this, because legislation like this is responding to something that we don't want to see in Australia. We don't want to see division. We don't want to see discrimination and bigotry. And we certainly don't want to see the things that can flow from that way of thinking and that kind of behaviour, which is violence and making people fear violence. That's unacceptable. At the outset, I'd make the point—I think it's an obvious point—that the greatest protection against violence and other hateful conduct that can flow from particular kinds of extreme bigotry and prejudice will not be legislative. The greatest protection will be cultural. The greatest protection is all of us working all the time—every member of the community—to foster, build, maintain and enhance the qualities that have generally prevailed in Australia: tolerance, inclusion, multicultural acceptance and diversity, care for one another and care for broader, shared wellbeing. Those cultural elements and values of Australia are the most potent protections against discrimination and bigotry and the things that flow from them. But we nevertheless need protections—legislative and through law enforcement, which is Australia's capacity to follow and enforce those legislative precepts—to guarantee the safety of the community and, in some ways, to reinforce what I said about the importance of culture to set those normative standards. What this bill does is take those standards and that capacity for law enforcement to provide further protection in response to the circumstances that have arisen in recent times. Those circumstances have been extremely concerning. As almost ever…
date: 2025-02-05T19:01:00+00:00

Climate Change | Matters of Public Importance | House debates
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description: The Albanese government is delivering the action that Australians rightly expect when it comes to dangerous climate change. It was one of the biggest reasons for the election of the Albanese...
encoded: The Albanese government is delivering the action that Australians rightly expect when it comes to dangerous climate change. It was one of the biggest reasons for the election of the Albanese government and of this parliament in its entirety back in 2022, and responding to that justified expectation was literally the first work that this government got underway with in the second half of 2022. We straightaway increased Australia's commitment under the Paris climate agreement by more than 50 per cent. We had laboured along in this country for years with a pathetic reduction target of 26 to 28 per cent on 2005 levels by 2030. It wasn't informed by the science. The very first thing we did was increase that commitment by more than 50 per cent, with only five or six years to go. We legislated net zero by 2050. We set an ambitious target to achieve 82 per cent renewables by 2030, and we are on track. The member for Brisbane mentioned that we have reached 42 per cent renewables in Australia's grid. What he didn't mention, of course, is that we've only reached that by increasing renewable energy generation by 25 per cent in the first two and a bit years of this government. In support of all of the measures that we took and that the Australian community rightly expects this government to do in tackling dangerous climate change—which is in the best interests of Australians and is an example of Australia at its best, as we work cooperatively with the global community and with our Pacific family—we have put in place all of the different measures that are required to get us to net zero by 2050 and to get us to that 43 per cent reduction target by 2030. We have introduced the Rewiring the Nation program, with $20 billion to make sure that our grid can accommodate all of that renewable and new storage. We have invested in the Capacity Investment Scheme, which will add 32 gigawatts of renewable energy and storage by 2030 to get to that 82 per cent target. We have a community battery…
date: 2024-11-27T15:20:00+00:00

Future Made in Australia (Guarantee of Origin Charges) Bill 2024; Third Reading | Bills | House debates
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description: by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
encoded: by leave—I move: That this bill be now read a third time. Question agreed to. Bill read a third time.
date: 2024-11-27T12:58:00+00:00