Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

You're right, Senator Bilyk. Plenty of people in the coalition party room know that this is nonsense. Well, our reliable renewables plan takes a different approach. We're cleaning up the mess in the energy system that was caused by a decade of denial and division by those opposite. We are providing the policy certainty that is necessary to get investment flowing after 22 failed energy policies—22 from across there.

But here's the thing: not one of those included nuclear. Here's another thing that former prime minister Turnbull said on Four Corners last night. He said:

… there was nobody, in any sort of senior responsible position during my time as Prime Minister who took nuclear power seriously, from an economic point of view.

It doesn't make economic sense, and it's why we are investing in firmed renewables. But Mr Dutton will serve up the most expensive form of energy— (Time expired)