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

This is an extraordinary question, really, to try and find in that organisation's discussions, to try and work your way through to find somebody in the energy sector who actually agrees with the sort of feral wildness that has overtaken the Liberal and National parties on energy policy. The Australian Energy Council say:

… the Australian Energy Council, supports an economy-wide interim emissions reduction target as an important step towards achieving net zero.

They say:

Interim targets serve to provide certainty to industry and the broader economy about the expected investment pathway.

The interim target will be challenging, but that is not a reason to stop trying.

That is what industry is demanding. The Australian Industry Group—