Warren-Clark AngieANGIE WARREN-CLARK (Labour): Thanks Mr Speaker. It's a pleasure to rise. This has been a great day for the environment hasn't it? I'm really enjoying myself in the House even though I didn't manage to have lunch today. It's wonderful to be part of the Government doing and taking care of the long-term issues that have failed to be addressed by nine long years of neglect from the Opposition.Hon Members: Oh stop it!ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: Nine long years of neglect from the Opposition. I would like to acknowledge the Minister the Hon James Shaw for this bill—Simeon Brown: Reading those researcher's lines.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: —and for actually pushing forward and getting this piece of legislation—Simeon Brown: Reading the research lines.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: —very complex legislation—into the House something that the Opposition failed—failed—to do. So I'm really proud of our Minister for doing that—Simeon Brown: Read the next line.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: —and I'd also like to acknowledge as well—SPEAKER: Order! Order! The member will resume her seat. Can I say that I am getting a little bit sick of repetitive reflections on my chairing of the House and if it happens again the member will be out. Angie Warren-Clark.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: Thank you Mr Speaker. So where was I? That's right—nine long years of neglect. No moving on. I just want to acknowledge our actions in this coalition confidence and supply Government as being tremendous. We're doing a whole pile of work and of course we've just heard about the zero carbon bill and we just spoke to that in the previous sitting.What I would like to say in regards to that though is we hear often that this side of the House knows nothing about agriculture. I grew up on a farm I grew up with lamb and beef and I grew up in forestry. My father has been in the forestry business for over 55 years. I get a little bit tired of hearing constantly that we know nothing about the agriculture industry and that we have—Kiritapu Allan: This lot all live in the cities. They can tell you all about it.ANGIE WARREN-CLARK: —no that's true actually; most of them do live in the cities—no idea and that we don't care about our farming or our agriculture industries. Well the reality is we do—we do. Thank you back to the bill.In this country we saw an estimated 170000 people marching around climate change. We're really privileged to be on the right side of history here in this House. We have signed and agreed with—and the member Mark Patterson has articulated this very well—a world-first plan for farmers to reduce emissions. We have a mechanism in the Climate Change Commission for monitoring progress. Where progress is not being made and not being achieved at the farm gate we have a mechanism to bring farmers into this scheme earlier. This plan provides the primary sector with certainty and it puts the responsibility of reduction into the hands of the primary production community. That is a wonderful wonderful thing because actually our farmers want to do this and we have seen that.This bill aligns the purpose of the emissions trading scheme with the zero carbon bill and the Paris Agreement to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. I like that the entire Paris Agreement is contained in Schedule 2. I like that because whenever the Opposition talks about the Paris Agreement they often misquote and confuse us. It's sitting in this bill in order to support us following and referencing the Paris Agreement. It puts a cap on emissions to align a five-year emissions budget with the zero carbon bill. It enables auctions of units which enable the Government to control the amount of units.Something highly complex—and I'm awaiting a briefing on this which apparently we will have this week—is the transition away from the fixed price option price ceiling to a cost containment reserve. This is a big bill and it is complex. It also provides transparency by publishing more emissions data so people will be able to tell where they're at and then it also updates the compliance and penalties regime.I'm interested absolutely in what submitters are going to say about the culpability measures that are contained in this bill. There are a whole pile of percentages based on culpability of understanding and of not filing etc. I think that that's going to be very interesting and I look forward to hearing from the submitters around that.Finally another thing that this bill does is introduce averaging accounting. Now I have explained that my family is involved in forestry and my sister is a forestry accountant so she specialises in forestry. I rang her and I said to her What on earth is averaging accounting for forests about?" And she explained to me that it's looking at the average growth of a block versus small samples and then you get the average of the growth rate and that's the calculation you use at that point to then when you sell or your forest is cut down reforest under.I got a little confused. I became a lawyer because I'm not very good at maths and this stuff confused me. It is complex. One of the things I think that will be very interesting is the number of pages that we have to go through with a number of calculations on where this gets to. So I think we're actually going to have a very complex and detailed examination of this bill. It is not going to be fascinating but it is very important.So today I'm proud that we're getting on with the hard work. I'm proud that we're daring to tread where National has failed to go. A real Government is about doing hard things and we are taking on those challenges. Doing the hard thing with compassion with collaboration—these are the things that will get us there as a community. I commend this bill to the House."