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

I thank my honourable friend for his question and thank him for his work in his community. He fights for his community at home and here in Canberra as well.

The Albanese government believes in a future made in Australia. That means well-paid jobs, highly skilled jobs, right up and down the supply chain. The most important thing to achieving that is getting the transition to renewable energy right. Take hydrogen as one example. Green hydrogen in Australia could produce up to 16,000 jobs, with another 13,000 in construction. Those jobs, almost exclusively, will be created in Australia's great industrial regions like Whyalla, where the Prime Minister was just a weeks ago announcing a hydrogen hub—

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