Karen Grogan (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

We are voting against this inquiry, but I just want to try and put a bit of balance into this debate about where we actually are and what the situation is as we see it. We can all disagree; that's totally fine. But let me just put where we're at on this. We think that the motivation for a reference to the Environment and Communications References Committee is not about getting an outcome, and it's not a genuine and meaningful conversation. But I'm not really surprised about that. We've watched, in the last 12 months, a great interest in this all of a sudden, whereas for 10 years there was much, much less interest. We know that those opposite are driven by an anti-renewables agenda, and we know that yesterday the stunt, in my opinion, of bringing 60 farmers—which is great—and landholders—