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

I'm more than happy to deal with the issues raised by the opposition, because they're important ones. They're important ones because Marinus and other transmission projects which it's connected to—like the North West Transmission link, which the Prime Minister and I announced with the Premier of Tasmania and the energy minister last week; the KerangLink in Victoria, which was also announced, as we are working on with other states. I presume, given the tone of questions from those opposite, that those opposite are very annoyed with the announcements from New South Wales in recent days, very annoyed by the announcement of the Treasurer and energy minister and the Deputy Premier in New South Wales about compensation for above-ground wires that have to be built in New South Wales—

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