Hollie Hughes (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention) Share this | Hansard source

Four times as many. She's been much more successful. She could maybe run the HAFF. But it is gaslighting Australians. It's treating them like mugs, and they can see it. They know they're worse off. They know their power bills are going up, because they pay them. So when you stand there and say that renewables are the cheapest form of energy and that energy is free from the sun and the wind, they know you're making it up. Renewable energy isn't the cheapest form of energy when you put the cost of the transmission lines in. We know the unicorn farmers can't quite figure it out because they never quite passed economics; they were too busy in gender studies and basketweaving. When you work out the volume of materials and concrete required for one wind turbine, let alone its limited lifespan—and the materials aren't recycled; they go to landfarm. The critical minerals are mined by slave labour. The Uighurs in China are making their solar panels. But they know that if your power bill is 50 per cent transmission and the transmission costs go up, your power bill's going up. This gaslighting of Australians is continuing to occur.

The opposition leader, Peter Dutton, does have a plan to get Australia back on track. Whilst we're going to see scare campaigns from those opposite, because we know that's all they've got in the campaign drawer, Australians aren't believing them. They didn't believe them in Victoria last weekend. They're not believing them in outer metropolitan areas. They're not actually believing them anywhere. They've never believed them in rural and regional Australia. Australians know you are gaslighting them. You are turning us into a poorer nation. You are dividing this nation. You are lining yourself up. We saw it this week as the Greens jumped into bed with you again to put the guillotine through. I think we're up to 200 bills we've now seen guillotined through this parliament, the parliament that was going to be full of transparency. What a joke! You'd be up for coercive control with the volume of gaslighting that's going on and the way that you're conducting yourselves.