Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

The CFMEU has written to every Labor member saying that their energy policy will increase electricity prices. The AWU head in Victoria said it has the potential to crucify hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs. That is what those on your side of the House are telling you about your own policies.

It is not just the federal Labor opposition; it is also Labor governments like the Queensland Palaszczuk government. It has a 50 per cent renewable energy target which the independence Grattan Institute has called 'magic pudding' economics. So it is time that the Labor Party—whether it is the Labor Party in South Australia with their 50 per cent RET, the Queensland Labor Party with their 50 per cent RET, the Andrews Labor government with their 40 per cent RET or the Leader of the Opposition with his 50 per cent RET—put jobs first, energy security first and energy affordability first, and stop idolising the golden calf of a 50 per cent RET.

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