George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Carr, what any corporation would expect of a government is that it approaches the making of important decisions in a careful, thorough and methodical way, which is precisely what we propose to do. Senator Carr, we are not, unlike the Australian Labor Party, going to find ourselves in a situation in which we can't keep the lights on, the way the Weatherill Labor government in South Australia is unable to keep the lights on. We are not going to preside over a situation like the Queensland Labor government, of unlamented Annastacia Palaszczuk, which sees electricity prices escalating exponentially across Queensland, particularly across regional Queensland, because the state government takes dividends out of state owned assets. And we are certainly not going to preside over a situation, as you did when you were in power, which saw electricity prices rise by 101 per cent over the six years of the last federal Labor government.