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

I thank the honourable member for her question. The largest risk to energy affordability and reliability in Australia is the honourable members sitting opposite. They have demonstrated again and again that they are a threat to affordable energy through their reckless and incompetent prosecution of an ideological agenda in energy. We have seen that they have failed to prioritise affordability and reliability in their ideological pursuit of renewable energy without any regard to the fact that the sun doesn't shine all the time and the wind doesn't blow all the time. If we need any confirmation of that, we only have to look at the home state of the opposition spokesman on energy, the member for Port Adelaide. South Australians know very well what a Labor energy policy looks like, and Australians would see that right around the nation if the Leader of the Opposition were to become Prime Minister.

Australia cannot afford a Labor government which would increase taxes—

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