George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you very much indeed, Mr President. Where was I? In the state of South Australia, which I love, Senator Farrell—I love the state of South Australia and I am very fond of individual South Australians, including you, Senator Farrell. We are not picking on South Australia; we are coming to the rescue of the people of South Australia by protecting them from a state Labor government which has been a case study of how not to do policy in this area—because, if you build your energy policy, if you decide your energy policy, on the basis of your ideological obsessions and your fear of our Green friends over there in the corner, then you—