Mr HUNT (Flinders—Minister for Health and Minister for Sport) (14:50): I thank the member for Grey, who knows that one of the most critical elements in keeping the lights on in hospitals and in helping to create 371,500 jobs in Australia over the last year is affordable and reliable energy. Here is a very simple proposition: if you can't keep the lights on, you can't run a hospital, you can't run a Whyalla steelworks and you can't run a Port Pirie metalworks. Affordable and reliable energy is critical to business and jobs, but it is also fundamental to our hospitals. We know this because we saw the Port Augusta Hospital lose power after the South Australian blackout last September, and we saw the Port Augusta Hospital lose power after its back-up failed. That meant a very simple thing. It meant that, in the member for Grey's electorate, there were risks to people who faced the need for dialysis and who needed critical care involving ventilators or humidicribs, things which are fundamental to patient safety and human safety. Running a hospital requires a stable electricity supply. Against that background, it's almost impossible to imagine that somebody would deliberately blow up a power station in Port Augusta. But Labor deliberately blew up the Port Augusta power station. The SPEAKER: The minister knows the rules on props. Mr HUNT: They blew it up. Not just figuratively but literally they blew up the Port Augusta power station. That is Labor's approach to electricity and power generation in this country. They delighted in the fact, they revelled in the fact, they cherished the fact that they figuratively and literally blew up a power station. The people of Port Augusta paid that price in two ways. They paid that price through the hip pocket from the skyrocketing prices in South Australia, but they also paid for it through the loss of stability and security. We are taking a different approach. We have not only abolished the carbon tax; we have taken steps to abolish the limited merits review. But now the Prime Minister has put forward the National Energy Guarantee. That's both about dealing with price but, in particular, about dealing with stability. This is about ensuring that never again should the people of Port Augusta face a situation where they don't have the security that their hospital will be able to continue providing essential services. What Labor wants in the end is the alternative. They want to drive up electricity prices. They want to see a $66 billion increase in the cost of electricity, and they don't care that it puts at risk electricity stability and security. If you don't have electricity stability and security, you can't keep the lights on and you can't keep the hospitals running. (Time expired)