Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

We are thrilled that, as I said, the COAG Energy Council delivered progress on Friday. But, sadly, the South Australian Labor Party sat there with the Greens energy minister from the ACT and continued to say that they were against it. Sadly, those opposite continue to give ambiguous answers about what their policy position is. We would urge them not only to listen to the government and look at the modelling that we have commissioned that demonstrates our case but also listen to the broad cross-section of 16 industry groups—a large range of stakeholders from the Australian Industry Group through to the National Farmers' Federation, the Council of Social Services, the ACTU and Vinnies—who all urged parties to work together in good faith and in the spirit of compromise to make further development of the National Energy Guarantee their top priority. It is certainly a top priority for the Turnbull government. We are pleased other states are willing to work with us, and we urge those opposite to do so too.