Sue Boyce (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

We do not have to accept that older style installations in other countries are somehow the big problem they are made out to be, as though something which happened 30 or 40 years ago, or even 12 months ago, is somehow going to affect us now. Let us look also at the number of people who die in car accidents every year. The number is 1,000 times the number of people who are affected by nuclear accidents. Of course nuclear accidents are a problem but not having any energy to run our world would be a bigger problem and we cannot afford to join some of the airy-fairy ideas of Europe and others. We must remain practical and focused on efficient, sensible solutions.

The coalition supports the development of this agency, which I am proud and pleased that the Greens could announce for as. We will certainly be using it to best effect when we resume government.