Matthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Minister for Resources and Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

I thank Senator McDonald, again, for that supplementary question. As I alluded to, the government is supporting all types of energy investments across the country as well. The Genex power station is a very exciting project, but the government is also supporting a proposed high-efficiency low-emission coal-fired power station at Collinsville in North Queensland. That's a great project—a fantastic project—that is being proposed by a company called Shine Energy, owned and operated by traditional owners; owned and operated by Indigenous Australians.

Ashley Dodd is the managing director. He is a person of the Birri Gubba nation. He and his people want power supplies, just like the rest of the country. So, guess what? Our First Australians want reliable and affordable power to provide jobs for themselves, just as much as we have access to it in other parts of the country. So I applaud Ashley Dodd and the Birri Gubba nation for bringing this proposal forward. The government is supporting it through funding a business case and I wish them all the best in development of their great proposal.