Craig Kelly (Hughes, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I hear the member for Port Adelaide. Obviously he is uninformed in this case and I'm happy to send it to him. This is from none other than the US Energy Information Administration. That is their latest projections out to 2050. That is what they project. You may have other projections, you may have other information or you may be making it up, like you've previously done. I notice the member for Grayndler is another culprit in this. The two gentlemen sitting at the table have talked about how thermal coal is in rapid decline. I hope they've looked at the evidence over the last 12 months and seen we've had record exports of coal. Both of you sitting down there have stood up in the media and made ridiculous comments about the decline of exports of thermal coal, and yet we have had the largest increase in coal exports in our nation's history. Everywhere around the world—Japan is importing more thermal coal; China's coal consumption last year was up by 5.2 per cent. I will leave my remarks there. I'd be more than happy at any time to give the two gentlemen at the table a briefing so they don't make so many silly comments in the media and embarrass themselves.

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