Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

As I indicated to the Senate in response to the primary question, coal is good. I know that we on this side of the chamber are not alone in that view. We do know that there is somebody out of Tasmania who shares our view. You might ask who that is. Well, it is none other than Dr Bob Brown, who, as the director of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society, said that coal-fired thermal was 'the best centralised option we have'. I could not have put it better myself.

So the Greens can come in here again and again and say that we should stop using coal, but I will refer Senator Waters back to what Dr Bob Brown said when he was the director of the Tasmanian Wilderness Society, and what I would say— (Time expired)