Carbon Neutral Adelaide

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (15:10): Can I then ask the minister: what is the target date for Adelaide to be Carbon Neutral Adelaide?

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Climate Change) (15:10): We will be the first carbon neutral city.

Members interjecting:

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER: We will be the first carbon neutral city. And the honourable member, when he reads the transcript of Hansard, will find out that in fact the date that I've referred to applied to the Adelaide City Council's own document, not the government's plan to be the world's first carbon neutral city. We will beat the others.

The Hon. R.I. Lucas: What's the date?

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER: The honourable member wants to pin us down to a particular date; he wants to play that game. We are going to be first—that is an ambitious goal. It is an ambitious goal where will be uniting with communities, residents, business, state government level, and local government level to achieve that outcome. Why are they afraid of ambitious targets over there? Because they always have been. Their level of ambition lies down in the gutter, and that's why they've been in opposition for most of their political life, and will continue to be.