Andrew Willcox (Dawson, Liberal National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Sorry—Dr Gordon Reid; I apologise. The member for Robertson went straight to deception, and those opposite have certainly got some form for that.

While we're talking about energy prices, a $275 reduction in power prices was promised by those opposite. And where have the power prices gone? They've increased for most people by over $1,000 a year, and this is going to get worse. It's simply going to get a whole lot worse, because Labor's plan is going to impose 58 million solar panels. These solar panels only last about 15 years—they say, at the most, 20 years. There's nothing renewable about a solar panel, so what do you do with it? You have to bury it. You put it in landfill.

In my previous job as mayor of Whitsunday Regional Council, we had a bit to do with landfills. They're very, very expensive to build, and then you have to monitor them. This renewable dream, this renewable fantasy, will be costing for absolutely ever. Every 15 years, or 20 years at the absolute most, you'll be throwing another 58 million solar panels into landfill. And what about the 3,500 new industrial wind turbines? They are not renewable or recyclable either.

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