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

I was outlining the entire emissions reduction, which those other two factors sit within the context of. I said 40 per cent is on those technologies we're already funding and supporting through the lower emissions technology road map. There is 10 to 20 per cent on international and domestic offsets, and there is up to 15 per cent on further technology breakthroughs. And I say to the Leader of the Opposition and the Labor Party, what have they got against technology? Why do they not have confidence that, in the next 30 years, in the world today, we will not see technology breakthroughs which will ensure that we'll be able to close the gap? If that's the case, they should never use one of these, because they don't believe they exist! An iPhone would never have existed if it was based on the assumptions of the Leader of the Opposition. He wouldn't have thought any of these things would happen. We wouldn't have had a COVID vaccine because it hadn't been developed two years ago, not even one year ago—or not much more than one year ago.

So, yes, it's true. I have more confidence in technological innovation and science than I do in taxes and regulations put on the Australian people by the Labor Party.

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