Is it any wonder I feel cynical? Because let's remember, this is a Government that again and again has reached for the easy gestures of political symbolism and yet time after time has failed the hard test of policy delivery. My suspicion is that the Government intends this motion to distract from its record, its failure to stabilise let alone reduce domestic greenhouse gas emissions; to distract from its failure to accelerate electric vehicle take-up, its failure to reduce reliance on coal-fired energy generation, its failure to accelerate breakthrough technology that would reduce not only our agricultural emissions but agricultural emissions throughout the world, its failure to produce a meaningful plan to implement our existing emission reduction targets; to distract from its preference for policies that fit in neat phrases like "100 percent renewable energy" but that are not approved by the independent experts and that result in renewable energy use dropping to 82 percent.