Matthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Minister for Resources and Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

The senator might not be aware, but there has been in the last year a House of Representatives inquiry making recommendations about those tax deductions, and recommendations were supported by both major parties in limiting or redefining those deductions. I will leave the relevant minister to comment further on that report, but obviously it is under consideration in terms of a response. I also think in today's paper another interesting fact is that people support building coal-fired power stations. They like the fact that coal produces cheap power, reliable power, that provides jobs and that can also be environmentally sustainable. Indeed, what I found interesting is that 15 per cent of Greens supporters also want the federal government to fund coal-fired power stations. They are obviously not listening to Senator Di Natale. I think they are in the Senator Rhiannon faction of the Greens, because good Stalinists love coal! You do not create a communist state without coal. You do not create the Industrial Revolution and a proletariat without coal.