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

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. In announcing the $2.7 billion insulation program, the government claimed that it would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by almost 50 million tonnes by 2020. Since that 50 million tonnes is not additional to the emissions cap in the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme as proposed, has the government misled the Australian people when it said that this measure would reduce Australia’s actual emissions?