House debates

Tuesday, 14 February 2017

Questions without Notice

Energy Security

2:08 pm

Photo of Malcolm TurnbullMalcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The delusion of the member for Port Adelaide is remarkable—really! This is a member from South Australia who described the blackouts in South Australia, including the one in September last year that cost Arrium—a business struggling to survive; a business where thousands of workers' jobs depend on its survival; on a knife's edge—$30 million. And what did the member for Port Adelaide describe it as? It was 'a hiccup'; just another hiccup! And he complains about one hiccup after another in South Australia. You are seeing businesses being put to the wall in his own state and his own constituents losing their jobs, and he does not think it matters.

What about the owner of a seafood restaurant in Port Lincoln who said he had no trade for 2½ days—

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