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

It is relevant, Senator Abetz, because you cannot come in here and ask questions about energy security pretending that you care about it when you are so recklessly proposing, without thinking through the energy security issues, a range of taxpayer funded purchases of abatement that even your own frontbench cannot defend and be consistent on. We have had the member for North Sydney confirming that the coalition's policy was to shut down coal fired power generation. (Time expired)