Justine Elliot (Richmond, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for the Environment and Water Resources. If the minister will not have a nuclear reactor in his electorate, how does he expect others to have one in theirs?

Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I have no intention of being as foolish as the member for Richmond. I was asked where I would nominate a nuclear reactor to be in my electorate. It is the smallest electorate in Australia: 25 square kilometres. It would be like asking the member for Richmond where you would put a nuclear reactor in downtown Murwillumbah. It is a stupid question. The member for Richmond knows it is a stupid question, and she does herself a disservice by asking it.