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

The shadow Treasurer had a moment of clarity recently. This is what he had to say about energy policy. He said this:

The development of interconnectors and transmission is critical to bringing new generation capacity into the energy system, while shoring up reliability and affordability across state borders.

Pretty good statement. Well done, Angus. Then he went on to say, 'Thousands of kilometres of new transmission is likely to be needed to connect new generation.' So you compare the rhetoric that they have and they had before the election, where they spoke about—they were going to have all of this new generation but, in fact, they had four gigs out and only one gig in. They now are trying to run a scare campaign about transmission and that we should have an energy system without transmission that completely contradicts what they said before the election. They didn't do anything about it. They had some 22 energy policies and didn't land one. So it's no wonder that my friend the Treasurer, here—

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