Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

The government will not review the targets, because the government is setting a course for Australia to reduce its C02 emissions at the highest level of any country per capita. We are reducing at a higher level than any other country on a per capita basis. That is something that the Australian Greens know to be fact yet refuse to admit, because they are so committed to their extreme ideology that no matter how good the coalition government is in delivering in this area it will continue to deny the truth, which is that we are delivering well and truly beyond our task on a per capita basis—keeping in mind that we provide cheap foodstuffs to many other countries in the world and provide good, clean coal to many other countries in the world.