House debates Questions without Notice

Renewable Energy

Thursday, 18 June 2015 House of Representatives

Mark Butler

Mark Butler Port Adelaide, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Water

3:04 pm

My question is to the Prime Minister.

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Opposition Members:

Opposition members interjecting—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop Speaker

Resume your seat. All I can say is I think those who stayed out late last night and only had Berocca should have taken something else as well.

Mark Butler

Mark Butler Port Adelaide, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Water

3:05 pm

I refer to the Prime Minister's statements last week about health impacts from wind turbines. Given the National Health and Medical Research Council has found no evidence of a human health impact, was the Prime Minister perhaps referring to claimed animal health impacts contained in Sydney University report including: dancing cattle, exploding bat lungs, chickens laying eggs without yolks and highly-strung sheep?

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Honourable Members:

Honourable members interjecting—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop Speaker

There will be silence on both sides. The Prime Minister has the call.

Tony Abbott

Tony Abbott Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister

And they made that president. That is Bill Shorten's latest boss. It just shows how little control the Leader of the Opposition has over his own party.