Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

I appreciate that the Greens have a view about this. The fact is that as a result of the failure by previous governments to invest in renewable energy there is still a cost gap between renewables and conventional forms of energy. That means that we do have to put in place policies which create investment, which bring forward investment and which give an incentive for people to use and to generate renewable energy. We need to put in place incentives for business to develop wave resources, geothermal resources, solar and so forth.