Bob Baldwin (Paterson, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources) Share this | Hansard source

I would like to thank the honourable members on both sides of the House for their contributions to the debate on the Energy Legislation Amendment Bill 2006. Before I begin to sum up, I just want to say that in all the years I have been in this parliament I thought I had heard it all. But to hear the member for Kennedy state in the middle of a speech, which is recorded in Hansard, ‘Don’t quote me as saying’ defies all logic. It is recorded now, and it will perhaps be referred to and quoted at some time by someone.

We note that the member for Batman has moved an amendment. On the amendment, I make the following points. Significant progress has been made by the Ministerial Council—

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