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

Thank you, Mr Speaker. We don't have to go back too far to be reminded of the former Prime Minister—who also happens to be the former minister for energy—the member for Cook, who said that a big battery was as useful as a big prawn. Nothing has changed over there. The former Prime Minister didn't get it. The current Leader of the Opposition doesn't get it. They don't really get renewable energy. They don't understand that renewable energy is the cheapest form of energy. They pay lip-service to renewable energy, but they just hate all the policies that actually deliver renewable energy. They hate our Rewiring the Nation policy. They hate our Community Batteries policy. They hate the real policies that actually bring these things on, which will provide cost-of-living relief to Australians, which will get more renewable energy. At the end of the day, you can change the face on the picture but it's just the same old Liberal Party that the Australian people rejected on 22 May.

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