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

Senator Hanson-Young, you assert that we do not have an energy policy, and that is entirely wrong. When it comes to climate change, Senator Hanson-Young, as I have pointed out to you many times over the years, Australia adopted at Copenhagen the most ambitious per capita reductions targets in the world—so, so much for having no policy in relation to climate change. But on energy policy more broadly, as I said a moment ago, we are technology agnostic because we understand that there are different contributors to the aggregate supply of energy in Australia. That includes coal, it includes gas, it includes renewables such as solar and wind, it includes stored power and it includes projects such as Snowy Hydro 2.0, of which the Prime Minister has been such a champion. We will configure our policy in a way that makes energy most affordable— (Time expired)