Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

As I just said in the answer to the first question, and as I said yesterday: the government is very clear about what it is we are doing. They are feasibility studies—feasibility studies and business cases that will look into these projects. And, of course, for business cases and feasibility studies, if they stack up, then you would expect to see investment that will flow to projects that stack up. That is how the commercial market works. We identified in the last election that, in relation to those regions of Queensland, there are questions about the reliability of energy. There are pressures in terms of the affordability of energy. These are issues it seems that the Queensland state Labor government has happily overlooked over a period of time.