Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I move the Greens amendment on sheet 4938:

(1)    Schedule 1, page 27 (after line 6), after item 89, insert:

89A  Section 40

Repeal the table, substitute:

This amendment effectively inserts into the bill the main recommendation of the Tambling report—that the mandatory renewable energy target be increased in size and extended to 2020 so that it would be 20,000 gigawatt hours in 2020. That is an extremely modest amount of extra renewable energy but, nevertheless, it would continue to lead to greater investment and security in that particular sector. Of course, I would like things to go much further, and I would be very happy if the minister sought to amend it even further. I would then withdraw this amendment and happily go with that, but I will at least test the government first on implementing the main recommendation of its own report.