Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

He sold workers' penalty rates out again and again—remarkably, again and again in circumstances where the union was paid money by the employer concerned. We have talked about Cleanevent and Chiquita Mushrooms. But, right across the board, let's look at the agreements that the Labor Party want to defend. They believe it is just that a worker at KFC on Sunday gets paid $21 an hour, but, at the award, gets paid $29. That is the deal they did.

Again and again, he claims to be in favour of renewables. What has he done? He has sold out Australians in terms of energy security. What are we doing? We are ensuring that we have Snowy Hydro 2.0, the plan that will provide the greatest storage and backup ever developed in our nation that will make renewables reliable.

What about the importance of gas supply? We have seen to date the results of our work. We called the gas producers in. We told them that they had to deliver for Australian businesses and families. We got a commitment, a guarantee of gas for peaking power being made available. Today you have seen Origin commit to providing the gas that is needed to get the Pelican Point generator going again, the one that was not working when South Australia had its blackout event.

Mr Frydenberg interjecting—

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