Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

Far from confirming that, I can deny that proposition outright because what we are doing as a government is making sure that we give careful and thorough analysis to every policy position that we take in the energy market and that we don't do what I've seen happen in my home state, where an energy crisis has seen Premier Weatherill rush out to try to solve it by putting diesel generators around the place; that we don't do what is happening in Victoria, where a desire for popularity suddenly sees the Victorian state Labor government put in place a 50 per cent Renewable Energy Target; and that we don't do what the Queensland Labor government in Senator Moore's home state has done and decide to price-gouge energy generators and basically rip off Queensland businesses and households by profiteering. We won't take those sorts of poor policy decisions. We'll take careful, considered and measured policy decisions in the best interests of Australian households and businesses.