Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Sterle. We know that Australians are doing it tough, so that's why we had a cost-of-living focus in this budget. And we know also that the country faces the biggest economic transition in history, so we have to plan for that future.

But what do we hear from those opposite? We hear them deriding the cost-of-living support and laughing at the Future Made in Australia policy. They're not coming up with plans about how to support workers or communities, unless it's about where to place a nuclear reactor, of course, which we look forward to hearing about tonight. Where are all those nuclear reactors going to go? Whose electorate are those nuclear reactors going to go in? While the pressure is on, while we're planning for a future as part of the global transition to net zero, we've got the opposition I think working on their 23rd or 24th energy policy, and they still haven't even been able to land that. They can't land it in opposition. You can't trust them with their plans on nuclear energy.