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

The only complaint the Labor Party has had about the closure of coal-fired power stations is that there haven't been more of them. They've wanted to close more of them, and more frequently.

I made the observation earlier that the great mistake that has been made in energy policy has been to replace dispatchable baseload coal-fired power with variable renewable power. In the course of doing that, not one person on the Labor side in government, either in the federal government when they were here or in state governments, paid attention to the need for storage or backup. No attention was paid to that at all. It is my government that has set out to build the largest battery in the Southern Hemisphere, Snowy Hydro 2.0, which will make renewables reliable.

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