Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

We will oppose this because Australians are paying record electricity prices, risking blackouts, buying batteries and synchronous condensers, building new multibillion dollar interconnectors, losing companies overseas and suffering voltage spikes. We are playing chicken with our smelters and party games with peak smart timers and extra domestic circuits so that electricity companies can manage our pool pumps and air-conditioners. They are the words of Joanne Nova, who has done a lot of work on this. Senator Watt, Annastacia Palaszczuk, Jackie Trad and Deb Frecklington all want to destroy the last stable east coast electricity grid and supply network. We are sending our top quality coal overseas for competitors to use and we are raising our electricity prices and driving our industry overseas. This is insane.