Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I do not think it is the volume the honourable member objects to; it is the content—they cannot take it. They cannot take the fact that they have failed to deliver the security of energy that Australians need, and they have done it in South Australia in spades. We can see it. Yesterday, it was 41 degrees—no power. That was great! What a great achievement! Really, this is the triumph of the Labor Party. They have a set of policies, a platform, every plank of which is designed, determined, to undermine employment.

Mr Thistlethwaite interjecting—

I saw the member for Kingsford Smith complaining a moment ago about how you model these things. Well, you don't need a model; you know exactly what is going to go on because you have the model there in South Australia. It is a real-life experiment. That is exactly what they are doing. They have been experimenting with the lives of South Australians, and that is what they will do right around Australia.

This Labor Party is led by a man who preached the virtue of cutting business taxes—

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