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

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given the minister’s answer, can the minister confirm that the only certainty this parliament will have when the legislation comes before it, before Copenhagen, is that Australia will go for a five per cent reduction in emissions, since the minister’s answer has been that it is totally discretionary for Australia to determine those parameters after the legislation comes before the chamber and therefore the 15 per cent is an illusion? Is that the case?