On Tuesday, 29 July 2025 during Estimates hearings, I asked Queensland's Minister for Energy and Minister for Home Ownership about the LNP's emissions reduction and renewable energy targets.
You can read my question and the Minister's response in full below, or in the official Parliamentary record of proceedings (Hansard) here.
Mr BERKMAN: I have, thank you, Deputy Speaker. I have a question to the minister. You are well aware that the Queensland Productivity Commission has been tasked with providing advice on energy and emissions settings that is due by 1 September this year. Will that advice from the Productivity Commission be made public?
Mr JANETZKI: I thank the honourable member for the question. Yes, he is right, the second referral to the Queensland Productivity Commission was a referral into energy and productivity related to the energy system and that work is being undertaken. Again it is an important piece of the energy road map and I have spoken about the development of that energy road map over the five-year period and the work that needs to be done and I have made clear the signposts in the energy road map. Coal will be for longer where it is economically and technically responsible, we will have more gas generation, for generation and for firming. We want to see a flood of private capital coming toward renewables here in Queensland. It is there. If my trip last week between Townsville and Mount Isa showed me again, it is the renewables that are coming.
Mr BERKMAN: Point of order, Deputy Speaker. The question was deliberately cast as narrowly as I could to avoid a long-winded answer. Could the minister please just answer whether or not the advice will be made public.
Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: Is your point of order relevance?
Mr BERKMAN: Yes.
Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: Treasurer, the point of order is on relevance. I know there is context around a lot of these issues, but come back to the question, please.
Mr JANETZKI: I was providing the context to the review and why it is important. It will form part of the energy road map development and I would anticipate that the Productivity Commission advice that informs the energy road map would be released, yes.
Mr BERKMAN: Thank you, Treasurer, I appreciate that. If I could ask one quick further question.
Mr DEPUTY SPEAKER: Go ahead, member for Maiwar.
Mr BERKMAN: On election night on the ABC you said that the LNP were ‘committed’ to both the 75 per cent emissions reduction target for 2035 and net zero by 2050. Do you stand by that commitment on election night?
Mr JANETZKI: We are committed to net zero by 2050. That is our commitment. This is where the energy road map plays an important first step in that. The development of that energy road map will help us. We obviously know that Queensland has passed its 2030 emissions targets. We know that the federal government has not yet finalised its midpoint emission targets. That work is continuing. Our energy road map will be completed by the end of the year. Bearing in mind some of that work is ongoing, as is the federal government’s work on their emissions midpoint targets, which I understand they are continuing to work on. I have an energy ministers meeting in the next month or so. I am sure I will receive an update then.
The federal government’s work will continue. We will deliver the Energy Roadmap. Certainly next year as we start work on our sector plans, which obviously are a very important part of emissions reduction, we will get the Energy Roadmap completed by the end of the year. Through 2026, building on that Energy Roadmap work and observing what the federal government does with their emissions targets, we will continue work on our sector plans as we map a way forward to net zero by 2050.