Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

I welcome the opportunity to point out that under this government there's one minister for energy and it's appropriate that the power be held by a minister for energy. It would have concerned me under the previous government because we now know that there was more than one minister for energy under the previous government. Under the government's absolute shemozzle there were secret ministers, who all would have had the power. I concede that there would have been less governance in relation to that. I don't wish to detain the House. We'll resist and defeat the amendment. I invite the honourable member opposite to ask me more questions at 2 o'clock. I suggest he word them better than the ones yesterday.

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