Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

It is clear that there is one party working to ensure we deliver cleaner, more reliable, cheaper energy to Australians. There is one party working to ensure we assist Australians to the extent we are able with higher energy costs. And there is another party that doesn't want Australians to be assisted—another party that wants to spend $600 billion on the most expensive form of energy there is. And now they want to make a political point about energy costs.

Do you want to know why energy bills have been spiralling? Some of it is international circumstances, but, in great part, it is because you and Senator Canavan and others didn't allow Senator Birmingham and others in your party to put forward an economically responsible transformation of the energy system. You had 22 policies. (Time expired)