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

I thank the honourable member for her question and recognise her leadership on regional jobs and renewable energy. She knows they go hand in hand.

I'm very pleased to report to the member for Bendigo and the House the latest figures from the Clean Energy Regulator, released in the last 24 hours, showing large-scale renewable energy investment up 50 per cent last year. The Clean Energy Regulator advises me a significant majority of that increase occurred after May, because the only thing holding Australia back was not a lack of renewable energy but a lack of policy.

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