Energy Market

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (14:53): Supplementary: is it still the government's position to support a state-led ETS?

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Climate Change) (14:53): I have already comprehensively answered that. I said we have consistently advocated for a national system as the most rational, the most efficient way of driving cleaner energy production in this country, and yet it falls on the deaf ears of a federal government which just wants to sell us more coal.

Why are they so in bed with coal interests? Where are their investments as a Liberal Party and a National Party? In the coal industry. Make them bring a lump of coal into parliament and try to persuade people that that is the future. I have a message for the Liberals and they will get this message next March: the people of South Australia don't support that. They know that renewables are the only way we will get through our electricity crisis in this state, and they know as well that if you elect a Marshall Liberal government next election they will have no policy on energy, because they will outsource it to the federal Liberal-National Coalition.