Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Hansard source

The government notes this motion selectively quotes from the LNP's election policy. In particular, the motion: (1) ignores the objective of Queensland LNP's policy to get the balance right between base-load energy and renewable energy; (2) ignores the criticism of the Queensland Labor government using electricity as a secret tax and thereby hurting Queensland's vulnerable pensioners on fixed incomes; (3) ignores the call to introduce retail competition into regional electricity markets to promote competition and to drive down prices; and (4) ignores the Queensland LNP's most recent characterisation of the ALP's 2050 net zero emissions policy as a destroyer of jobs in regional Queensland and a hammer blow to Queensland's agriculture industry.