House debates Questions without Notice

Emissions Trading Scheme

Tuesday, 11 August 2009 House of Representatives

Peter Garrett

Peter Garrett Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts

3:22 pm

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I am actually doing just that. I make the point to the House that the member for Flinders on 1 May said that the coalition would announce a more ambitious renewable energy policy than the government’s 20 per cent target by 2020. We never saw that. Then on 4 February, as they lined up to oppose the government’s energy efficient homes package, the largest rollout of energy efficiency in Australia’s history, he said:

… we will come back with more details of an energy efficiency package.

We have not seen that one either. So the opposition has not got a policy on renewable energy, which is what this question was about, it has not got a policy on energy efficiency and it has not got a policy on an emissions trading scheme. We have got the ETS; they have got the MPS—the magic pudding scheme.

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