Ross Cadell (NSW, National Party, Shadow Minister for Water) Share this | Hansard source

I will take that interjection, because—let's face it—Mr Joyce has only been in the party room for one of two reasons: (1) because he's leader or (2) because he wants to be leader. If he's going to another party room, I think those two things will still apply.

When we get back to here, let's go through what we're doing going forward. Australia's emissions reductions are 28 per cent, more than double the OECD average to this point, and we have been doing this through the use of land. I'm a National Party senator. We have been doing it through land-use change—the LULUCF method, which they called 'the Australia clause' in the Paris Agreement. Let's be honest about that. The change in land use from productive forestry or productive agriculture to being locked up, to produce Australian carbon credit units, ACCUs—and we'll talk about the methodology of that at another time—has produced the vast majority of this.

There has been no serious work on emissions reduction in the energy area, which forms one-third of Australia's emissions. Electricity is only a third of that again.

But, as I said originally, in 3½ years, tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer money were spent, with zero real change in emissions. If you look at the scoreboard, that will tell you. Don't believe the hype. That was a great rap song from the eighties! We were at an eighties party last night. If I go back to the time when I think Senator Pocock might—I don't know if he played under coach Rob Dyer or not; I'm looking— (Time expired)