Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Siewert reminds me, ‘And for your health,’ too. We have seen the statistics for cancer if one has too much bacon for breakfast, particularly with coffee.

Let us get back to this serious proposal. It is a fundamental part of the reason that Germany has the biggest renewable energy industry in the world—and it may be overtaken by China shortly—with some 250,000 people employed and a multibillion dollar income from the export of renewable energy and other technologies to the rest of the world. It is a much better system than the multiplier proposal that is in this legislation. It deserves to be taken up. This is the opportunity for the big parties to consider that. The issue has been discussed before at large, with Senator Milne displaying her usual panache and second-to-none knowledge in this area. I propose that this amendment be adopted.