House debates

Tuesday, 28 March 2023

Questions without Notice

Energy

2:39 pm

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

Today we have, in the Financial Review:

Canadian giant Brookfield has pledged to invest billions of dollars to accelerate the decarbonisation of Origin Energy after sealing a long-awaited $18.7 billion deal to buy out the Australian electricity and gas supplier together with US partner EIG.

It went on to say this:

… the binding agreement puts to bed any lingering doubts in the market that what was the second-biggest takeover proposal announced in 2022 in Australia would be derailed by the federal government's intervention into energy markets to rein in runaway prices.

No wonder they're against solar power, because they keep predicting the sky will fall in. That's why they're against solar power—because they keep predicting that the sky will fall in. The sky won't fall in. We have the best solar resources in the world, and we're going to use them.

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