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

It's not just more enlightened members of the Liberal Party who recognise that the earth is round and renewables are the cheapest form of new energy; it's also the business community. This is what Jennifer Westacott said—

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When they're not busy trying to expel Liberal businesspeople like Nigel Satterley, they could at least listen to them. Jennifer Westacott said this:

You'll also be paying less for your power because at the moment building new renewables is cheaper than building new coal and cleaner electricity will continue to drive down energy prices.

That is what the business community says. That is what state and territory governments say. But what do those opposite do? They pretend that the former energy minister didn't know about regulations that he was delivering to hide a determination by the Australian Energy Regulator until it just happened to be to replace 1 May with 25 May. What happened in between 1 May and 25 May? What happen? What was it? What was it? What was it that happened on 21 May? They wanted to avoid the Australian people, before they voted, knowing about the hike in energy prices that was occurring on their watch because of their failure to invest in energy. (Time expired)

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