Hollie Hughes (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

I withdraw. If you listen to Ben Fordham on Radio 2GB, he has a particular name for Minister Bowen and it's really quite funny. I believe it's Ray Hadley who coined the name, which is particularly funny. I will guide you there, since apparently I'm not allowed to reference anything said anywhere. Minister Bowen, I have noticed, is building an industry. We noticed that he said he was going to build solar. He needed solar panels and wind. He needed 22,000 solar panel panels to be built every day and 40 wind turbines every month. When asked at estimates at the beginning of this year—81 days since he made the claims—the department couldn't tell us how many they produced; they only acknowledged they were well behind schedule. We now know there would need to be up to somewhere like eight million a year. They would need to have put in 300,000 by now. We know that at no stage has that been reached.

The industry that Mr Bowen is building—anyone who is a bit of an online investor, share trader, maybe have a look—is the candle industry. I bought some the other day. I will make sure I put them in a cupboard and will probably look to buy a few more, because we are reasonably sure, as summer approaches, and particularly since Queensland is already having a pretty hot day, that we might need a few candles as the blackouts roll out. Senator Hanson just frightened us all by saying that there will be no coffee machine going and we will all be on International Roast, that there will be no Netflix. You won't be at home on your iPad, having it charged up with your Wi-Fi working; no, you will be sitting by a candle. It will be a romantic candlelit evening on a hot summer's night because the power will have gone out because the wind won't be blowing and the sun won't be shining. The demonisation of those opposite of the gas industry is unbelievable. To hear Senator Green go on—here's a little reminder for you all that sit opposite. You're the government. You can say whatever you like about what happened eight, nine or 10 years ago. Well done. Well done, people. We can all do Rudd-Gillard-Rudd too. We were all there at that time as well. But, let me tell you, they are not—