Mrs ANDREWS (McPherson—Minister for Industry, Science and Technology) (14:33): I thank the member for his question. I share his concerns about energy prices and energy reliability, and their impact on businesses not just in Queensland but right across Australia. Let me start with an important stat that starts to put this into a little bit of perspective for manufacturing industries, and that is that manufacturing represents close to 20 per cent of total final energy consumption in Australia. So any increases in energy prices and changes in energy reliability have an enormous impact on Australian businesses, especially manufacturing businesses. When you put this into perspective—there are about 900,000 jobs in manufacturing in Australia—you can see that changes to energy supply and reliability have a huge impact. On this side of the House, we are absolutely committed to doing everything that we can to make sure energy is reliable and the prices are as low as they possibly can be. That's what we are committed to on this side of the House. We want Australians to keep their jobs in manufacturing, and we want Australian manufacturing to be strong so that we are creating the jobs of the future for our young people. Mr Conroy interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Shortland. Mrs ANDREWS: I was asked whether there were any threats to energy security, and clearly there are some threats to energy security. There are those opposite and their allegiance with the Greens and, importantly, with GetUp! That alliance combines to promote and present something that is ideologically opposed— Mr Conroy interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Shortland is warned. Mrs ANDREWS: to lower energy prices. We've seen the impact of ideologically driven policy on energy prices and security of supply, particularly in South Australia. And when there's a supply issue, it's the manufacturing businesses that are impacted, often first, and their operations are shut down, often for a shift at a time. I'm going to finish today by noting that the former leader— Opposition members interjecting— Mrs ANDREWS: They are so smug over there, and they forget that on their watch one in eight manufacturing jobs were lost. Shame on you—and what a good thing you didn't win the last election, because the light would have gone out on Australian manufacturing, and we can't afford a Labor government in this country.