Our response to the Pacific Island plight:

"[I] get a little bit annoyed when we have people in those sorts of countries pointing the finger at Australia and say we should be shutting down all our resources sector so that they will continue to survive," he said.

"They will continue to survive, there's no question they will continue to survive, they will continue to survive with large aid assistance from Australia.

"They will continue to survive because many of their workers come here and pick our fruit."

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Last year, Australia was among the world’s top investors in renewable energy in absolute terms and the biggest on a per capita basis.

Not make a blind bit of difference if the extra electricity does not displace fossil fuel generation.