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

Well, on the question of insanity, I just wish I had brought a mirror into the chamber that I could hold up to the Australian Greens. If you're looking for insanity, the policy platform of the Australian Greens offers a perfect model of insanity—economic insanity, job-destroying insanity, the type of insanity from those opposite that would see Australia close down industries and prematurely lose jobs in different sectors and industries whilst other nations would simply grow and fill that gap in different ways.

The way we are pursuing net zero and helping the world to get closer to addressing climate change is about making sure we get the technology developed in affordable ways so that other countries have affordable energy solutions. We want Australia to be at the forefront of those affordable energy solutions, but we're not going to shut down the industries we have now while we're still in the process of supporting hydrogen and other sectors to grow and develop. That would be insanity. (Time expired)