Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

I'll take the interjection from the former minister, who just said, 'It's not 28,000 kilometres.' Well, he did say, on 18 March this year:

Thousands of kilometres of new transmission is likely to be needed to connect new generation, and deliver reliable and affordable energy across the national market.

Thousands of kilometres he said were necessary. He just forgot to deliver any.

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