i completely understand scomos position, it's simple, we want manufacturing back again otherwise we're looking at 13% unemployment for years, manufacturing can only compete if cheap reliable energy is afforded, he simply says, if the private sector can't supply it, we will, but the east coast of Australia is so green, it will take 500 years to eat through the green tape to sink one drill, so he's prepared to take it on, and therefore it will go to tenders, and he owes regional and north Queensland for the election win and the only way he can shut down Matt canovan who want a coal mine in Townsville is to guarantee supply of cheap, reliable, available power, and Queensland gas is way, both politically as it will appeased the coalers in the liberal right, and it will please liberal national regional queenslanders abandoned by awful labor/green state governments
