RENEWABLE ENERGY

Mr WILLIAMS (MacKillop) (15:21): Supplementary question: the minister just said if he could control the business of supplying energy into the South Australian market he could control the price. Can he explain to the house how he would do that?

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens—Minister for Transport and Infrastructure, Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy, Minister for Housing and Urban Development) (15:21): I will give the member for MacKillop a lesson. When he voted to privatise our electricity assets he removed generation and distribution from government ownership. The government used to set the price and generate electricity. That has now been removed from the government's hands, and he voted to do so; therefore, we don't control the price of electricity anymore.