Ian Campbell (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment and Heritage) Share this | Hansard source

The MRET policy was aimed at, I think, 9½ megawatts. Although people like to confuse the message, the reality is that Australia’s proportion of renewables is somewhere between 10 per cent and 11 per cent. So it is a substantial sector in this community. It is a very successful industry. If the Greens, the Democrats and the Australian Labor Party want to run around telling Australians that they can solve the problem of ensuring that we have got a secure energy future and secure jobs and that they can also address climate change and dangerous green house gas emissions by using renewables, then they are part of the problem and not part of the solution. You have to tell the truth about this issue and you have to have practical solutions. If you try to kid people by saying that, if you build enough wind turbines, you can solve the problem, you are misleading the Australian people and you clearly do not take climate change policy seriously.