Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

The cruel hoax is the party who presided over a reduction in the renewable energy component of our energy sector coming in here and pretending to be the champion of renewables. Senator Birmingham, if you had listened to my answer, I acknowledged that the transition had been brought forward to ensure the financial sustainability of the government’s support for the solar industry. We are funding more than four times what we promised we would fund and substantially more than anything which was funded under the Howard government. We acknowledge that this is a transition which some may find difficult. We are committed to bringing forward the renewable energy legislation to provide ongoing and sustainable support for the solar industry, support which was never forthcoming under the Howard government.