Matthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Senator Ayres. Yesterday, the energy minister recommitted to Labor's goal of reaching 82 per cent renewable energy by 2030. In the first two years of your government, renewable energy has gone from 31 per cent of the electricity grid to 35 per cent, growing at a rate of just two percentage points per year. Renewable electricity's share would need to grow at quadruple that rate, at eight percentage points a year, to reach 82 per cent by 2050. What evidence does the government have that this is possible without the mass devastation of the Australian environment and without ignoring widespread community opposition to its renewables rollout?