House debates

Wednesday, 26 May 2021

Questions without Notice

Energy

2:31 pm

Photo of Angus TaylorAngus Taylor (Hume, Liberal Party, Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Robertson for her question. As someone who previously worked in the telecommunications sector, she knows how important new technology is to creating jobs, and that includes in her electorate on the Central Coast and includes businesses like Star Scientific that we recently saw—world-beating technology from Australia using hydrogen in a world-beating way to produce heat and electricity, right there on the Central Coast.

Our Technology Investment Roadmap is all about driving $80 billion of combined public and private sector investment in clean technologies and low emissions technologies—160,000 jobs over the coming decade. And ARENA is central to that plan. We've given ARENA an additional $1.4 billion of baseline funding—

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