Jerome Laxale (Bennelong, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

We know that those opposite wasted a decade on energy. They talk about a plan, but they had 22 failed plans, and now they have a 23rd. Let's go down memory lane to see how we got here. In 2013, we saw the Direct Action plan. Then the Liberals abolished the renewable energy target. We then had the emissions intensity scheme. Plan No. 4 was the clean energy target. Plans 5, 6 and 7 were three different versions of the National Energy Guarantee. Their eighth policy was not to have a policy at all. Nine and 10 were the big sticks—just them yelling at coal-fired power stations to keep them open. In 2020, there was UNGI, an MOU with energy companies. Then they proposed energy price caps, followed by a nuclear power committee. Then the Liberals released plans to build government owned coal-fired power plants and use public money to underwrite all new coal projects. That didn't last long. The 17th plan was the Grid Reliability Fund, followed by the famous gas-led recovery. Then we had an unlawful attempt to circumvent parliament, followed by the announcement, with no detail, of getting to net zero by 2050. In 2021, we saw the low-emissions tech fund, which never made it to parliament, and then the ham-fisted attempt to set new 2030 targets. Then, finally, they announced the Technology Investment Roadmap in 2021—whatever that means! They had 22 policies, they had 22 failures, and that's 22 reasons to prove that the Liberals' nuclear plan will also end up on the scrap heap where it belongs.

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