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

What has gone wrong in energy policy has been that mixture of ideology and idiocy, especially in South Australia, as the member for Port Adelaide is well aware. What we need is engineering and economics. Every form of generation has a role to play. The forms of generation have no moral characteristics; they have physical characteristics. Engineering and economics are the way to go. The National Energy Guarantee enables the technologies that do the job best at the relevant time to be deployed. It is completely technology agnostic and that is what should be adopted, because, as every leading business group and industry group around the country reaffirms, it will deliver the investment certainty we need. It will deliver more reliable power and it will deliver more affordable power. If there's going to be a unity ticket in this chamber, surely more reliable and more affordable energy would be that unity ticket? But, apparently not. Labor is still committed to ideology and idiocy, which can only have one result: less reliable and less affordable power. That is not fair to the hardworking Australian families the Labor Party claims to care about.

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