We are back in gotcha land with Dan Tehan asking Chris Bowen:

Will the Minister confirm that the government will meet each renewable energy target of 82% by 2030?

Will the minister confirm a target will be met in the future, right now, at 2.25pm on Thursday 31 July 2025? Will the minister get in his time machine and confirm that target was met? Will the minister fall into this very obvious trap?

Of course not. It is Bowen, one of the best people Labor have for twisting a question to the one he wants to answer, rather than the one he was asked. That’s not a sledge, it’s a political skill, and it isn’t as if anyone actually expects to get answers here, or that the Coalition even know what they are doing asking these questions.

Bowen:

I can absolutely confirm that it is this government’s intention to continue to work towards that target, 2030, absolutely and I am pleased to tell the honourable member that we making good progress towards it. It is 2025 and we are working towards that 2030 and we are making good progress. In the last financial year, 4.4 gigawatts of their renewable energy was added to the grid. Up and running. But the pipeline was 15.6 gigawatts which is a massive amount of renewable energy, I know it upsets those opposite to hear those points, just this week there was $1 billion announced to be invested in Australia’s renewable energy system by a very large international investor, this is good news, at least we think it is on this side of the house. Just today, AGL announced a multihundred million dollar investment in energy storage in our country, Mr Speaker, which is a good thing stop all of this leads to an addition to a renewable energy pipeline for our country, we think it is a good thing and they think it is a bad thing.

There are a bunch of points of order and interjections but really, who has the energy?

Bowen finishes with:

In addition to that big battery that has been announced today I can confirm what the Prime Minister told the House a few moments ago, in the last four weeks 18,000 336 Australian households have added a battery to the household under the cheaper homes battery policy. Asking will we meet our targets, I believe we will.

But we know whether target is believe me it takes temerity from those opposite to ask this side of the house about meeting our targets when they can’t agree on whether they have a target, Mr Speaker. Just before Question Time the house voted on the new England members Bill, do not have voted to on the bill? Side of the house plus the Member for new England. Everybody else over there voted against the house getting the chance to vote for the bill, even the bromance, the member for New England and the member fore Riverina, they don’t even know what their target is.