Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Port Adelaide should know very well why we commissioned, through the COAG Energy Council, the report from the Chief Scientist—because in South Australia the big experiment went wrong. The member for Port Adelaide described it as a hiccup—and 1.7 million people lost power!

So, we have from the Chief Scientist a detailed report, more than 200 pages in length, with a series of recommendations from an expert panel. And we have said publicly that we will give his report the due consideration that it deserves, because there are a whole series of recommendations—a clean energy target, which, as the Leader of the Opposition should know, was the preferred recommendation over his emissions intensity scheme. And why? Because his emissions intensity scheme was punishing coal.

Mr Conroy interjecting—

And the member for Shortland opens his mouth—

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