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

That question from the member for Sturt was the most successful intervention in the renewable energy debate since Josh Frydenberg and the Premier of South Australia had a press conference together, where Josh Frydenberg was blaming renewable energy in South Australia for blackouts, which renewable energy had nothing to do with.

I tell you what the honourable member for Sturt might have wanted to check. He asked about the closure of the Yallourn power station, which was announced when they were in office. And what did they do? They brought down the Underwriting New Generation Investment fund, which should have been called 'the unfortunately no generation involved fund', because it delivered not one watt of energy. What we saw was four gigawatts leave the grid and one gigawatt come on. That was the result of 10 years of policy indolence. (Time expired)

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