Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The Greens will be opposing this motion, firstly, because it's not factually true and, secondly, because it's an attack on the achievement of 100 per cent renewables. What the ACT experience shows is that abundant clean energy is deflationary. It helps our planet and our hip pockets. Renewables bring down prices. Coal, oil and gas are expensive, and prices are held hostage to the geostrategic desires of the leaders of petro-states. This parliament should celebrate the one jurisdiction that has actually lowered energy prices both in real and nominal terms, and it's the same jurisdiction that has 100 per cent renewable energy and it's the one jurisdiction with a Greens-Labor government in shared power.