Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I think I've actually answered that substantively in my first answer, which pointed to the various factors which are driving up energy costs. You might like to pretend that the government and the country are not trying to grapple with what every country in the world is. If you talk to Germany about what is occurring in relation to energy prices, you will see we are not the only government or the only people who are having to grapple with rising energy costs. The one fact that those opposite just cannot accept is this: renewables are cheaper. Renewables are cheaper, and the fact is that you're allergic to that fact. That you spent so many years fighting each other because you didn't want to accept the facts is, in part, why Australia is in the position that it is in.