Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

One of the advantages of being in government is that you have all of the machinery of government and all the capability of government to make assessments about what is in the national interest in terms of climate change targets and in terms of the delivery of a low-cost, reliable electricity system. We're ably assisted in that by the new chair of the Climate Change Authority, Mr Kean, a former Liberal treasurer from New South Wales, who's working with the government and supporting the government's assessments on these. He's on the ground in regional communities and working with the electricity sector to make sure that we deliver the best outcome in the national interest, because we're focused on the real national interest for Australian industry and Australian households.