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

I thank the honourable member for his question. I think all ministers would expect a question on something that was on the front page of a newspaper—so no surprises there. Congratulations for getting to it when it was on the front page of yesterday's newspaper! Congratulations for that!

That's actually the least of the problems with the question. The document the honourable member refers to does refer to the closure of Liddell power station and Bayswater power station. Liddell's closure was announced in 2015, and Bayswater's closure was announced in February this year. A common fact about those closures is that we weren't in office at the time. A common fact about that is that those opposite were in charge at the time those were announced.

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