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

It's the target that I, as Prime Minister, took to the last election and that was endorsed by the Australian people. That's what it is. It's a policy that was endorsed by the Australian people at the last election. When I took that policy to the election—when Labor took a policy of 45 per cent, and it was rejected by the Australian people—I said that we wouldn't just meet this target; we would beat this target. What we've seen is that emissions have fallen by more than 20 per cent on 2005 levels. We are making excellent progress towards that goal. Indeed, we will meet that target and we will beat that target, and I'll be in a position to advise the COP26 about our success in meeting and beating that target when I am there in a few weeks time.

We've already heard that on our side of politics—the Liberal and Nationals—our way to address climate change is to ensure we do it with technology, not taxes. But we heard from the Labor senator on the weekend—

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