Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy Efficiency, Senator Wong. I refer the minister to the findings of the ANAO report into the administration of the National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting scheme and in particular to the findings that 75 per cent of emissions reported to the government by companies that are likely to be liable to pay the carbon tax contained errors, with 17 per cent of reports containing significant errors. What confidence can the public have that companies are able to accurately measure and report emissions on which, in less than five months time, they will begin to have to pay billions of dollars of tax? Is this not just further evidence that the government's entire carbon tax is built on false premises and very shaky foundations?