Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

What a bizarre question from the Leader of the Australian Greens—who succeeded a leader who promoted a coal-fired power station for my home state of Tasmania against a renewable energy supplier of hydro-electricity. The hypocrisy and the duplicity is galling. Everybody in this place knows that you can support coal-fired power stations and a renewable energy target. They are not inconsistent. We are pursuing both in a sensible manner while you, Senator Milne, and the Australian Greens, in your ideological-driven hatred of hydro-electricity, have come unstuck 30 years later—when you and your cohorts in Tasmania champion a coal-fired power station against a sustainable renewable energy supply of hydro. (Time expired)