George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Senator, I actually did not hear the Prime Minister's interview with Alan Jones.

Senator Gallagher interjecting—

I actually did not hear it, Senator Gallagher. Can I tell you, though, that the government support renewable energy as part of our energy mix. We want to see the renewable energy target, which was introduced by the Howard government, by the way, succeed. Legislation has passed the House to progress our bipartisan agreement—with the opposition, by the way, Senator—to reform the target, avoiding wasted investment in electricity generation, reducing the risk of unnecessary price rises for consumers and allowing small-scale generation such as household solar to continue to grow uncapped, and exempting energy-intensive trade-exposed sectors such as aluminium. These measures are good for Australian jobs.

The Commonwealth government does not approve new wind farm projects—