Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I will get advice about what I can provide you in relation to funding arrangements. What I can say is this is a project that the Australian government is committed to delivering. It's a project that will deliver, as I said, economic benefit to Tasmania as well as to Victoria and, as importantly, it will improve reliability. It will provide reliability in the National Electricity Market. We would see better utilisation of existing Tasmanian generation and we would see additional security for Tasmania, providing important redundancy for the Basslink Interconnector. In relation to the funding arrangements, I have some knowledge. I need to check with the minister what can be provided in the public context and I will do so.