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

The policy that has been adopted by the government was considered by cabinet last night. That's why I'm in a position to advise that today we are releasing the plan—the detailed plan—that sets out how we reach net zero emissions by 2050: by focusing on technology not taxes, by ensuring that we're respecting people's choices and not seeking to mandate them and tell them how to live and what to buy and how they're supposed to do things on their farms and other places, to ensure we have a strong portfolio of technologies that can be successful, over the next 30 years, to achieve these targets, to get the balance right between affordability and emissions reduction, to keep prices down and to keep the lights on and ensure that there's the transparency and accountability not just on emissions reduction but ensuring that we're constantly monitoring the socioeconomic impacts of these policies, particularly in rural and regional areas.

We're absolutely confident the plan that we have, the plan that we have agreed, the plan that we have adopted, that sets out our policies in detail as to how this is going to be achieved, will be a positive economic benefit, as the modelling indeed shows. We will release that modelling as we indeed should, and we certainly will. Today we've released the plan and we will soon release the modelling as well.

That is very different to what happened at the last election. At the last election there was a choice between a 2030 target of 26 to 28 per cent by the government and a 45 per cent target offered by the Labor Party. The Labor Party was asked to release the costings and modelling that went to their policy. They refused to do it. To be fair—

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