Senate debates
Tuesday, 19 November 2024
Questions without Notice
Nuclear Energy
2:01 pm
Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source
It will deliver four per cent of Australia's energy needs.
Opposition senators: It's 4.1.
They are desperate to try and find some economic credibility on this point. But the facts are entirely against them. And not only are the facts against them, and the market against them, and the advice from AEMO and others in the field against them. We also know what else is against them, and that is their record. The reason we have the challenges we have in the energy sector is the 22 failed policies under you. And now we still have Senator Canavan and others, President, already calling into question the policy of the opposition when it comes to their targets. Senator Birmingham, you can ask all the questions you like, attempting to use others in order to provide scaffolding and foundation to your policy, but everybody knows it is without foundation.
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