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

What we have is a challenge in our energy sector. Energy is too expensive, it is not reliable enough, and we need to have a plan to meet our emissions commitments: 26 to 28 per cent from 2005 levels by 2030. That is our commitment. Labor wants to do double that. They want to have 50 per cent—

An honourable member: Forty-five per cent.

Forty-five per cent, I am corrected, by 2030. They have no plan for that. They were not even aware—so dimwitted is this bunch of left-wing ideologues opposite, so utterly untutored in anything to do with engineering or science; these fools were happy to have lots of renewable energy, but it did not occur to them—that sometimes the wind does not blow and the sun does not shine, and they forgot to do anything about it The member for Port Adelaide, better than anyone, knows what that means: the most expensive, least reliable power in Australia. (Time expired)

Honourable members interjecting—

Mr Falinski interjecting —

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