Fiona Nash (NSW, National Party, Deputy Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

I certainly am, and it will come as no surprise to those on this side of the chamber when I say that the risk and impediment is the Labor Party, with their ideologically driven 50 per cent renewable energy target. They do not care about energy security—they do not care about the people whose cost of living is going to go up. They want all coal-fired power stations to be shut down. Indeed, the opposition climate change and energy spokesmen, Mark Butler, was quoted as saying that Australia needs a mechanism for the orderly and planned closure of coal-fired power stations. What is that going to do to costs? We see the ideologically driven Western Australian Labor Party moving towards a 50 per cent target—apparently now they have backed down, but who can believe that? Who can believe that WA is not going to head towards that 50 per cent target? Under Labor our children are going to be doing their homework by candlelight.