Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I ask, simply: will the Prime Minister now table the modelling for his so-called net zero plan?

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

The modelling will be released in the next few weeks. I've made that very clear, when we're releasing the modelling. I look forward to the modelling being released. When those opposite ever come up with a plan—they won't even tell us what their 2030 target is before Glasgow. I don't know what they're waiting for! I know what our target is. Our target, that we're taking, is 26 to 28 per cent. Talking about our policies—

Opposition Members:

Opposition members interjecting—

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I'll just say—yes, it's okay. I know what the question was too, which was very specific and very short, and it doesn't take me long to remember it.

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

Twenty-six to 28 per cent is what our target is. That's what we took to the last election, and we're going to beat that target. That's what I'll be telling people in Glasgow, under our nationally determined contributions, that we expect for that to fall by 35 per cent.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister will resume his seat. The Leader of the Opposition on a point of order?

Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes, Mr Speaker. It was a very, very specific question and the Prime Minister is not being relevant to it. It goes to the modelling—will he table it?

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I'll just say that there's an opportunity to refer to the plan briefly but there's not an opportunity—the question was, 'Would the Prime Minister table the modelling for his net zero plan?' The Prime Minister has absolutely answered that question in saying that it will be released publicly in a few weeks time and he has had the opportunity to reflect briefly on the policy, but it's not an opportunity to simply talk about the policy for the next two minutes when he was only asked one question. The Prime Minister.

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

Thank you, Mr Speaker. So, yes: Australia has already achieved a 20 per cent reduction in our emissions since 2005, which has also seen our economy grow by 45 per cent over that same period of time. And we are forecasting—projecting—in our nationally determined contribution at Glasgow that we will beat that 26 to 28 per cent target and that our emissions reduction by 2030 will be 35 per cent. That's what we anticipate that to be, based on the work that is being done under the transparent process which the government has been long engaged in.

We know, under our plan, that by the end of that forecast period—

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Prime Minister—

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

I'm talking about the model!

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

No, actually, that wasn't clear.

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

It was; I was about to make that point.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Okay, but if you're talking about the modelling you need to make that clear. That's—

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

Yes. And that shows that under our plan GDP is up by 1.59 per cent. Under our plan, it's about $2,000 per person better off per year. Under our plan, we are seeing a 5.6 per cent increase in investment. That's what our plan is doing. We've looked at that and we've wrestled with these issues; we've worked through these issues and we want to be assured that these outcomes can be achieved, particularly for rural and regional Australia. We've done the work to satisfy ourselves on that and we've done the work to satisfy ourselves that we can reach net zero by 2050, grow our economy and support rural and regional economies. We're confident about that, that's why we're taking it forward.

The Labor Party isn't confident about anything, they don't even have a target—

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

No, this is not an opportunity to talk about alternative policies.