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

The member for Port Adelaide has already confessed to his failures on the subject of gas. He's owned up. Why he wants to keep on doing this public penance and sticking his head up and talking about gas is beyond me, because it gives us the opportunity to reflect on why my government has had to take the measures it has to ensure Australians have affordable gas. And we know why we've had to take that action. It is because of the failure of the Labor government, despite sensible, strong, considered advice from AEMO, from their own department, that allowing unrestricted export of gas would push up prices and restrict supply. It's fairly obvious, actually—a penetrating glimpse of the obvious, you might think—but, nonetheless, they ignored it. It was, I suppose, in the words of the Leader of the Opposition, an issue that they could deal with down the track. But the fact is: we are—

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