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

We are making the biggest commitment to pumped hydro—which makes renewables reliable, I should add, for the benefit of the member for Sydney—in Australia's history. That is our initiative. That is our commitment. That is the leadership we are providing to ensure Australia's energy future. Labor has ideology. It has politics. It has slogans. It has partisanship. It even has fake offers of bipartisanship. But what it does not have is a plan, because it ignores economics; it ignores engineering.

Finally, I would remind the member for Sydney that if you want to meet your emissions reduction obligations you have to reduce emissions. How you do that is, of course, of less concern than meeting the commitments. (Time expired)

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