Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I thank Senator Minchin for his answer. He demonstrated that he has no idea what a feed-in law is, because he did not mention it once in that response. What I particularly asked was: ‘Have you looked at the potential for renewable energy feed-in-laws? If so, which department has done that?’ So I ask again: given that the spectacular growth in renewable energy generation in European nations has been driven by feed-in laws, a national target and an emissions-trading system, will the government now examine feed-in laws as a complementary initiative to an emissions-trading system and a renewable energy target so that we do achieve a rollout of renewable energy? Senator, What do you understand by ‘feed-in laws’?