Electricity Generation

Mr VAN HOLST PELLEKAAN (Stuart) (14:50): Supplementary question: given the minister's answer to my question, can he advise the house how many blackouts South Australia experienced in the last quarter of last year?

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS (West Torrens—Treasurer, Minister for Finance, Minister for State Development, Minister for Mineral Resources and Energy) (14:50): There was a statewide blackout because of a storm that members want to blame on renewable energy. Which blackout in this state has been caused but wasn't impacted by weather? Which one wasn't impacted by weather? Which blackout wasn't impacted by weather? Even the Prime Minister, after having received a briefing from his own agency—

Mr Wingard interjecting:

The SPEAKER: The member for Mitchell is warned for the second and final time.

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: —was forced to admit—

Mr Marshall: Everything is weather for him.

The Hon. A. KOUTSANTONIS: That's what the Prime Minister says. Well, again, the perfect gift that keeps on coming. The Prime Minister gets up in the parliament and says it's the weather that caused the blackouts, not renewable energy, yet members opposite want to believe it was renewable energy. The Prime Minister, through investigations by Fairfax, found that he actually got briefed by AEMO, that it was the storm that caused the blackouts. Now members opposite are saying it's renewable energy. Get a briefing!