Mark Butler (Port Adelaide, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Just last month, the chair of the Energy Security Board repeated the consensus view that there would be absolutely no way that anybody would be financing a new coal-fired power generation plant and that this was not contentious at a factual level. So how can the Prime Minister today tell the parliament that coal-fired power might be around forever? Is there nothing this Prime Minister won't do to stop the members for Warringah and Hughes from crossing the floor and undermining his government?

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