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

Senator Pratt, without accepting any of the more lurid premises of that question, I will tell you how the Australian people can have confidence that the Prime Minister and this government will make the right policy choices. We will make the right policy choices, because they will be informed by science. We will make the right policy choices, because they will be the informed by engineering. We will make the right policy choices, because we are led by a Prime Minister who understands this issue, working hand in hand with a minister with a deep understanding of this issue. We will not be driven by ideology; we will not be driven by our own political obsessions, as you are; we will not be driven by our fear of the Greens; we will be driven by the pragmatic choices needed to protect the interests of the Australian people in affordable electricity, reliable supply and lower emissions. That is what we will do, and that is how we will do it.