Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

Thanks to the Prime Minister. We are going about implementing our election commitments, because we know, on this side of the House, that clean energy is cheap energy. We have already started implementing our policies to move renewables to 82 per cent of our grid. It is the case that the former minister for energy didn't just not issue a release, he actually had to physically intervene to change the law. He sat in his office and signed an instrument to change the locks. He probably sat in his office and then once he'd done it he thought to himself: 'Fantastic. Well done, Angus.' That's what he thought. We've got the former minister for energy who sat on energy price rises. We've got the former Minister for Environment who sat on the State of the environment report. The entire leadership group of the opposition is a walking witness protection program. I'm surprised they don't have their meetings in a safe house.

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