Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

How we get cleaner, cheaper, more reliable and, increasingly, renewable energy into this system will be absolutely central to our prospects in the years ahead. The Australian people understand this, and the Australian business community and investor community, as the Prime Minister said, understand this as well.

This side of the parliament has done more to secure the future of our energy markets in 10 months than those opposite were able to do in almost 10 years. We legislated an emissions reduction target—

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