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

It's a tough day for our colleagues in the National Party. I know that our opponents hope for and pray for a little bit of bad performance, because nothing fills their hearts full of joy more than a bad outcome. But this is an unambiguously good outcome. It is true—it's a bit like the opposition's approach to covert accounting in a range of other areas—that during the COVID period emissions in areas like transport declined. That is true. But what has happened here is an unambiguously good outcome where the equivalent of our whole aviation sector, in emissions terms, has reduced.