Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

and in renewable energy in Victoria and Tasmania, because we know that we need to upgrade the electricity grid, what did the opposition say about that? The shadow minister issued a release saying that this was a sweetheart deal between us and the Victorian government. This was an announcement made by the Prime Minister and me in Hobart with the Liberal Premier of Tasmania. The shadow minister said this was a sweetheart deal with Dan Andrews. He wasn't there. I'm not sure where the opposition thinks the Marinus Link goes from Victoria—the Antarctic, maybe! I'm really not sure what they think. We don't know what they think about many things. We know what this government's getting on with: the task of rebuilding the energy system in our country after 10 years of denial and delay is what we're getting on with.

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