Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Moore for his question. When the Prime Minister and I met earlier this week with the Committee for Adelaide, they reminded us that South Australia was the canary in the coalmine when it comes to the reckless energy policies of those who sit opposite. They see the experiment, that terrible experiment that is being played out in South Australia under the matched renewable energy policies of those opposite who sit in this chamber. What we are seeing in South Australia is what happens when Labor policy grabs hold of our energy grid.

We have seen experiments from the Labor Party before when they were in office. We saw their experiments on border protection; we saw their experiments on policies that set fire to people's roofs and led to the terrible tragedies that we saw. We saw the experiments they put in place which saw overpriced school halls, and the complete catastrophe that drove our budget back into deficit and presents us with the debt burden that we have today.

Energy security is critical to businesses and households, and what we saw last night from the shadow Treasurer was not only an exposition of incoherence and incompetence but, if you wade through all of that—as I said, all the ifs and the buts and the aye-ayes and the well, wells and all the rest of it—

Mr Thistlethwaite interjecting—

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