Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

You were very lenient, President—very lenient indeed! And I was getting ahead of myself. Net zero, for Senator Babet's information—through you, President—is really a basic maths concept. I just want to set it out to provide a little bit of clarity for the team over there. We will have reached net zero emissions when the amount of greenhouse gas that we emit into the atmosphere is no more than what is removed. Senator Babet and Senator Cash have asked—I should have included you, Senator Cash, in the list of potential askers, the silly-billies over there on energy policy—