Senate debates
Wednesday, 2 August 2023
Questions without Notice
Energy
2:32 pm
Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source
tor HANSON (—) (): I remind you that your state runs on solar, wind and gas. You blew up your power station in 2016. That's why your prices have actually gone up and the rest of the states have coal.
My question is: on 28 July, Clair Lehmann reported in the Australian that, 'when taken into account the full cost of renewables to an energy system, solar is 14 times more costly than nuclear energy, and wind is 4.7 times more costly.' Will the minister please explain to the Australian people—
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