Melissa Price (Durack, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment) Share this | Hansard source

What a good local member is the member for Dunkley. He invited me to speak to a number of really good local community environment projects, and we should be supporting that. In fact, I encourage all those opposite to get out there and start talking about what the expressions of interest are that you might be open to. It's a good opportunity for you also to be talking about our $100 million restoration fund for really good environment projects—those projects where you can help the waterways and clean up those rivers, or good waste projects and other good environment projects. While you're there you might talk about our $3.5 billion Climate Solutions Fund and the $2 billion more for the Emissions Reduction Fund.

What do we get from those opposite? I don't know that we'll hear tonight about how much the 45 per cent emissions reduction target's going to cost the Australian people. I think people would be very interested to know that—their reckless carbon policies that we've heard uncosted. What we would like to know tonight is: what is a reckless 45 per cent emissions target going to cost the Australian public? Can you also tell us how you're going to bridge that $1.3 billion turnaround? Perhaps you can tell the Australian public while you're at it.

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