Page 5062 - Week 12 - Tuesday, 26 October 2010

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service delivery that are going to be to the service and benefit of the broader community, as well as making a significant contribution to greenhouse gas reduction.

I would like to thank all the officers in my department who have worked towards the development of this legislation and the significant amount of research and analysis that has occurred in bringing it to this point. I would also like to thank those in the community who have lent their support for what is an ambitious but achievable target to achieve significant greenhouse gas reductions.

Finally, I would like to thank those members in this place who have lent their support to this process as well. This is an important piece of legislation and one that will inform and guide our decision making for many years to come. I commend the bill to the Assembly.

MR RATTENBURY (Molonglo) (4.47): I want to speak very briefly. I think the minister has elaborated some of the points but I simply wanted to note my sense of pride on behalf of my colleagues in the Greens that we, as an Assembly, are passing this bill today. This bill flows from the parliamentary agreement between the Greens and the Labor Party in which we agreed to legislate the greenhouse gas reduction target.

I welcome the government moving forward on this as part of that agreement and the constructive conversations we have had over the two years in moving towards this point and particularly in the context of the actual passage of the bill and the mechanics around it. We have much work to do. This is simply a steppingstone on what is going to be a long and challenging journey for both government and the citizens of the ACT.

But we have set a standard to strive for, we have set a standard that reflects the science and I believe we have set a standard that offers hope—hope that humanity can turn around this titanic known as climate change, that we can tackle it with all of our ingenuity, with all of our vision and with all of our determination and that we can do our very best to ensure a safe climate for future generations on this planet.

I commend the bill to the Assembly as well.

Title agreed to.

Question put:

That this bill, as amended, be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

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