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. Yesterday the Prime Minister said coal-fired power will be around forever, but the head of the Energy Security Board has said there would be absolutely no way that anybody would be financing a new coal-fired generation plant. Why is the Prime Minister promising coal forever when his own Energy Security Board says coal is more expensive, more polluting and not more reliable? Is it because the Prime Minister doesn't actually determine his government's energy policy but the member for Warringah and Senator Hanson do?

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