Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Emergency Management and National Recovery and Resilience) Share this | Hansard source

I've just outlined why it is important to back a gas led recovery post-COVID. It's not just for local jobs out in the regions and in our industrial sections of our capital cities so that working Australians can earn a good wage in high-paying, long-term careers. It is also important that we have a gas led recovery to ensure that individual Australians and working families can heat their homes at an affordable cost.

I tried to outline to you, Senator Thorpe, what the impact can be of not investing in fuel sources such as gas, and you are seeing the implications of that in Europe right now. And you know what? It is not the people who vote for the Greens that are actually affected by these types of things. It is not the inner-city elites, on their very high wages, that actually have to worry about their housing and heating costs— (Time expired)