Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for his question. Everything we are doing is backing the hardworking families and businesses in the honourable member's electorate and in every honourable member's electorate, including the honourable member for Paterson's electorate, who is concerned about the future of the Tomago Aluminium smelter at the same time that she is advocating the end of coal-fired energy in the Hunter Valley. That is going to be very interesting. I would encourage her to have a chat to the management and the workers about how they are going to go without any baseload power.

The opportunity to get ahead, to find a job, to start a business, to raise a family—those opportunities are what we are building in Australia today, and they depend on the security of energy, of national security of safety but, above all, they depend on the security of electricity supply. We have seen in South Australia the consequence of the radical Labor energy experiment—

Mr Brian Mitchell interjecting—

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