Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation) Share this | Hansard source

The one thing that I liked about the senator’s question was the suggestion that in the next 10 years of the Howard government there might be a particular decline in renewable energy. I hope that the first part of the question is right: that we will see another ten years of the Howard government, but I also hope that renewable energy will continue to increase. That is why initiatives such as in the senator’s neighbouring state of Victoria of Solar Cities are so very important. That is something that the Labor senators opposite do not want to hear about, but I can tell them and advise them that their own state Labor government in Victoria wants to know about it because they have partnered with us in this very important initiative. What I would invite the senator to do, if she can still hear my answer above the arrogance of the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate—(Time expired)