House debates Questions without Notice

Energy

Tuesday, 17 October 2017 House of Representatives

Greg Hunt

Greg Hunt Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for Health

3:08 pm

But, as we heard, there are real threats to the ability of those services to be delivered, because of the lack of a reliable and affordable energy supply in Victoria. We recently saw the headline, 'Energy market operator warns Victorians to prepare for summer blackouts'. The message contained in that article was: 'Australia's energy market operator has warned the state will be in a dire situation in Victoria if it faces an extreme summer'. Why? Because of the recent closure of Hazelwood. That came about as a result of the direct, deliberate, intentional destructive policy of the Victorian Labor government. What does that mean?

Ms Chesters interjecting—

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