Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment) Share this | Hansard source

We are making dramatic and real progress under our approach to reducing emissions. It is actually working, because what we saw in the latest national inventory statement for the last quarter was that we had the lowest emissions since 2004 in trend and seasonal terms. They are the official national figures. They were released in the last few weeks.

Where does this fit? In 2008, when their justification for the carbon tax was put down, they said there was a gap of 1.3 billion tonnes which had to be filled between 2012 and 2020. Then in 2013 they said it was a gap of 750 million tonnes. Then it became a gap which we discovered at 426 and then 236. And do you know what?

Mr Ewen Jones interjecting—

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