Graham Perrett (Moreton, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I'm not going to go through all 20 energy policies, Member for Macnamara, no, but I beg your pardon and take the interjection: 22 energy policies. But all can be traced back to Tony Abbott becoming leader, when he weaponised responding to dangerous climate change, the greatest moral challenge of our time, as it still is: something being visited on our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren because of Tony Abbott becoming leader. For those opposite to stand up and talk about cost of living without apologising for all those energy policies is reprehensible.

We have a great record of all the things we're doing to reduce cost-of-living pressures: childcare, medicine, 180,000 TAFE places, more choices when it comes to energy because we believe in renewable energy. Why? Because it's cheaper. They pretend they're grabbing this mythical beast called nuclear energy when everyone, including these people that we call 'scientists' at the CSIRO, tell us that nuclear energy is much more expensive.

Look at what we did for aged care, for manufacturing, for wages. We have done fair dinkum things. They cosplay that they are champions of the poor people in Australia. Their mouths say one thing and their feet do another when it comes to voting in the chamber. They've had a shameful record over the last, I'm going to say, 26 years—if you go back to March 1996. As soon as they got control of the Senate—

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