Marielle Smith (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, Senator Birmingham. Yesterday the Liberal member for North Sydney, Trent Zimmerman, said:

We have no commitment to fund a coal-fired power station and I don't think we should … From my perspective, it's not the business of the Commonwealth government to be building or funding coal-fired power stations.

And yesterday Liberal member for Wentworth, Dave Sharma, said on public funding of new coal-fired power generation:

… I don't think the government should be in the position of doing this.

Does the minister agree with the position of his New South Wales Liberal colleagues?