Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance and Administration) Share this | Hansard source

It really is a very silly question. I do not know how many times we have to elicit the enormous investment we have made in greenhouse gas reduction and the enormous investment we have made in renewable energy and assisting those industries. I had the pleasure of launching Geodynamics’ first commercial well in this country to prove up geothermal power—something I am personally very excited about and think will be great for the state of South Australia, which I am proud to represent in this place. So we take the issue seriously, but we are not prepared to abandon thousands of jobs and industry in this country in the name of chasing Green preferences.