Page 5998 - Week 14 - Thursday, 8 December 2011
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MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Would you like to withdraw, Mr Seselja?
Mr Seselja: I would be happy to speak. How long do I have, Madam Assistant Speaker?
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: No, you have to withdraw “misleading”, Mr Seselja.
Mr Seselja: No, he has given me leave.
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Will you withdraw “misleading”?
Mr Seselja: It was actually in response to what he said about the bill. He said the bill is still on the notice paper. That is incorrect. That was a misleading statement. I am happy to withdraw that he misled the Assembly but what he said was incorrect.
MR CORBELL: I am happy to stand corrected, Madam Assistant Speaker, but it does not remove the fact that the Liberal Party’s policy is an emissions reduction target of a 30 per cent reduction on 1990 levels by the year 2020. So their position is an emissions reduction target six times the Australian target. How does Mr Seselja reconcile that with his criticism of the 40 per cent target?
Let me turn to the next great contradiction in Mr Seselja, man of the environment. We have, of course, his opposition to large-scale solar where he claims that large-scale solar is inefficient. Indeed, he went on, in a statement that he put out earlier this week, to say that this was a policy that achieved nothing for the environment.
Mr Seselja: That is true.
MR CORBELL: It is true, is it, Mr Seselja? It achieves nothing for the environment?
Mr Seselja: Didn’t you hear my speech?
MR CORBELL: Madam Assistant Speaker, I would draw Mr Seselja’s attention once again to the policy he released as Liberal leader in 2008, where he saw large-scale solar as a central element of the response to climate change in the ACT. What did he say back then? Back then, large-scale solar was not just important; it was actually “the cornerstone” of Liberal Party climate change policy. It was the cornerstone.
Mr Seselja interjecting—
MADAM ASSISTANT SPEAKER: Order! You can speak again, Mr Seselja. You do not need to interject.
MR CORBELL: The Liberal Party went to the last election saying they were going to build a large-scale solar power plant. It was not just a demonstration plant. It was going to be a plant that could deliver baseload power capable of providing Canberra
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