Angus Taylor (Hume, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I withdraw. Colourful language, I do accept, very much so. He goes on to say that the Assistant Treasurer's:

… priorities in office have been nothing short of bewildering, such as bending over backwards for small superannuation funds like the $3.6 billion First Super, chaired by CFMEU heavy Michael O'Connor …

That's slightly less colourful language, Deputy Speaker, so I think that is more acceptable. But that is what has been said about the performance of the Assistant Treasurer. It does take a team to make a mess of things, and that is exactly what those opposite are doing.

The other person who is getting it all wrong time and time again is the Prime Minister. Not only has he completely failed to commit or recommit to be $275 electricity price reduction; he does not understand the electricity industry at all. In fact, he claims that one gigawatt of electricity was committed or built under us. The answer is: in the last three years of government, it was 18.9 gigawatts. He's only out by a factor of 19. And, in each one of those years, more renewables were built than in the entire time those opposite were in government. Those opposite are all smear and no idea.

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