House debates

Tuesday, 2 August 2022

Questions without Notice

Energy

2:03 pm

Photo of Anthony AlbaneseAnthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I could just refer to my answer of yesterday but that wouldn't be as much fun as going through what our policy is because our policy is very clear. Our Powering Australia plan is indeed up on the website. And something that might be unfamiliar to those opposite is the concept of putting out an energy policy that you are going to actually implement, because those opposite had 22 energy policies and didn't implement any of them.

The other thing that might be confusing for those opposite is the concept of putting out a policy that's fully costed and that has detailed economic analysis, in this case by RepuTex, Australia's leading energy economists. And what Australia's leading energy economists said is that if you embrace the changes that we're advancing—including fixing transmission through our Rewiring the Nation plan, making sure we bring the electricity grid into the 21st century—if you have a policy that upgrades—

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