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

Like I said very clearly, a government that I lead was not going to support a net zero by 2050 target unless we could detail a plan to achieve it.

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Those opposite scoff at this.

Opposition members interjecting—

Those opposite scoff at this. What they don't understand is that people in rural and regional Australia and right across the country deserve that: they deserve to know what the plan is, how it impacts them and how we're going to achieve it. And that's what we'll be setting out very, very clearly, just as we set that out for our 2030 target at the last election. The Labor Party just signed themselves up to a net zero by 2050 without any consideration, without any plan, without any understanding of the costs, and they were happy to let Australians pay for it. That's not our approach. Australians will see very clearly our plan for how we will meet our targets, and we will be very faithful to the commitments we made at the last election, where we said what our 2030 targets would be. Those opposite couldn't explain their policies. We could. That's why Australians could trust the Liberals and the Nationals with an economic plan that enables us to meet our emissions reduction targets. They know that both parties in our coalition—which have, rightly, wrestled with this issue and, rightly, considered carefully the implications and the costs and the issues that will need to be dealt— (Time expired)

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