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

I thank the honourable member for his question and note his lifelong commitment to supporting small business and enterprise in the electorate of Hughes and around Australia.

One of the most critically important factors for every business, every household, is affordable and reliable energy. Over the last week we have announced our commitment to Snowy Hydro 2.0. This is carrying on the great vision of the founders of the Snowy Mountains scheme, the courageous men and women from every country in the world who came out to Australia after the horrors of the Second World War and worked together and built an engineering marvel. We have some of those mountain men here in the gallery today—Charlie Silvestro, Gianni De Bortoli, Tom Frece and Ervino Bertolin—as well as Charlie's wife, Sue, who also worked with Snowy Hydro. What an amazing team.

Dr Mike Kelly interjecting—

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