Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

I am interested in Senator Milne’s last supplementary in that Senator Milne acknowledged that what I referred to was the modelling. It is unfortunate that in her first question she was not actually clear about the fact that my indication to the Senate was based on the modelling. I appreciate that clarification in the last supplementary. The negotiations on the renewable energy target have been traversed previously. It is the case that the government accepted some amendments and did not accept others, and made a judgment about what it considered to be the case. If Senator Milne wants to argue again why we should or should not have accepted some amendments, that is obviously a matter for her. This legislation was passed through the Senate with the Greens and opposition support. The government acknowledges that.