Matthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Minister for Resources and Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

I think we don't have to look too far to see the consequences—in this chamber itself! We just have to look over there in the other corner of this chamber to see exactly what will happen if we oppose power supply. Over there we have a mob of Greens who are opposed to coal, opposed to gas and opposed to nuclear, and they're opposed to their wind farms as well! I don't know how we're going to generate power in the country if these guys ever have the levers of power. They're opposed to all types of power supply, basically, in this country. They don't support solar—they'll find a reason to oppose solar as well at some point!

They want to turn the lights off. The last one to leave will turn the lights off if the Greens are ever in charge! Those would be the consequences if we opposed forms of power investment.