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

I have rarely heard a more disingenuous contribution than the one we have just heard from Senator Collins. I guess I should correct that by saying that the Palmer United Party's backflip on the renewable energy target was probably equally disingenuous in saying in Western Australia on one day that they supported the current target and then, on the very next day, having the leader of the party, Mr Palmer, come out and say that he does not support a mandatory renewable energy target, which means he does not support one at all, because a voluntary one is a meaningless concept. That was a pretty disingenuous set of statements from them.

I just want to go through this to make very, very clear here that, as one of the people who was in the room working on developing the legislation with the former government, of course I am familiar with part 2 section 14. 2011 is the date. What is set out in part 2 section 14 is the process you go through to set a cap. I know what that process is. Everybody knows what that process is. The question I asked was: what is the cap? The whole point of the process is that you go to flexible pricing with a cap. That is the point.