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

We always work for Australians. That's our job. I again refer back to what I said earlier. If you want to look at the number of companies that you talked about, they invest in Australia. They invest in very large projects in Australia. They employ very large numbers of Australians. The development of many of our energy industries has been as a joint endeavour between Australia and countries who seek these energy resources. I'd also make the point that these other countries, who will also co-invest with us, work with us on things like green hydrogen. So those energy partnerships matter to Australia, they matter to our transition to a lower-carbon economy, and they matter to Australian jobs because it is Australian jobs which benefit from this sort of investment.