Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

What I've been outlining is what the government is doing to meet the targets we've set when it comes to taking action on climate change, which is exactly what the subject of the COP processes will be later this year.

Our government has a track record of meeting and beating the targets we set when it comes to meeting our emissions reductions targets. Those opposite can't even tell us what they think the 2030 target should be. Is it 45 per cent, like the member for Maribyrnong thought it should be? Should it be 26 per cent, like the member for Hunter thinks it should be? Should it be a target of 35, as I think the member for Sydney thinks it should be? She was very happy with a 45 per cent target. Those opposite can't even work out what should be done by 2030, but yet they want to parade around the place and talk about a target for 2050. A 2050 target without a plan means one thing: it means a tax on Australians. That is what a target without a plan means; it means a tax on Australians—because they have no plan to make it happen otherwise.

We're putting together the technology plan and the technology roadmap—which may well exceed a zero net carbon outcome in 2050. It may well exceed that. Those opposite came up with a target but they had no clue what it would cost and no clue how they would get there. The interview that the Leader of the Opposition did with David Speers needed encryption analysts to work out what he was actually saying—and they still haven't worked it out! Labor have no plan, no clue, no targets and no idea.

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