Mark Butler (Port Adelaide, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. The government is now in its fifth year of office. In that time seven coal-fired power stations have closed, removing capacity equivalent to nearly six million households' power, or more than enough energy to power every home in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. After seven power station closures, why has the Prime Minister only discovered that energy supply is a problem now?

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