Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I am happy to answer the supplementary question, but I would invite you to consider whether it has anything to do with the primary question. How it is a supplementary to the first question really takes some imagination. If the question is whether the government regards LNG as an important industry, then yes we do. I think that is reflected in how we have approached that industry, both in the context of the climate change portfolio and in the context of Minister Ferguson’s portfolio. If Senator Cormann is somehow trying to suggest that the government does not recognise the importance of that industry then, again, the facts do not stack up in his favour. I think anybody looking at the way in which this government has approached this issue would know that we do recognise the importance of that industry.