Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

The Hydro-Electric Commission in our home state of Tasmania is the reason I am in this place, because, but for the employment opportunity that was provided to my father and family in 1961, we would not have emigrated from the other side of the globe to Tasmania to take up a great opportunity, so I think you will find no more sympathetic a person in this place to the Hydro-Electric Commission and the development of hydro-industrialisation than myself. Having said that, I believe that hydro has had a great history in Tasmania and will have a great future in Tasmania. That is what we as a coalition government in Canberra and a Liberal government in Hobart are absolutely committed to protecting.