That's delightful. It is Bass Strait, not the Tasman Sea, across which Marinus will go.

Does the minister agree with the comments of the Tasmanian shadow minister for energy, Labor's Mr Dean Winter, as reported in the Mercury newspaper today, that Tasmania would be best off getting out of the Marinus project as soon as possible? Further, he said:

There's no point throwing good money after bad, at a project where more than 90 percent of the benefit flows to the mainland.