Senate debates

Wednesday, 26 March 2025

Questions without Notice

Energy

2:59 pm

Photo of Jenny McAllisterJenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Emergency Management) Share this | Hansard source

In the longer term we know that reliable renewables are the key to getting prices down, and the Labor Party, backed by experts, are united in implementing that Reliable Renewables plan. We are uniting, which is so key to providing the market with certainty to invest. But, after denial and division and delay for 10 years, which led to 22 failed energy policies, the coalition are still fighting amongst themselves about their signature energy policy—possibly policy 23, 24 or 25; I have lost count.

We have, of course, coalition Senator Canavan who says this about the signature energy policy: 'Nuclear is not going to cut it. We're not serious. We're latching on to it as a silver bullet because it fixes a political issue for us.' We have members of their own party setting up Liberals against nuclear, and we've learned that the Liberal Party has not used nuclear in any of its 24 paid ads running on social media. (Time expired)

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