Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

NG (—) (): I'll try and do my best. I'm not sure where you got to at the end of the question. But I think I understand the argument of the question, and if I don't then I'm sure the senator can follow it up with a supplementary question. But the proposition that we can simply stay with the old coal-fired power electricity generation and that that's going to give us cheaper energy is just no longer the case. And do you know how we know that? It is because no private sector entity wanted to invest in the new coal-fired power.