Sam Rae (Hawke, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The rank hypocrisy of these Liberals—their decade of Liberal government was an absolute litany of policy failures when it came to reforming our energy markets and introducing renewable energy. The entire rest of the world agrees that renewable energy is the future of energy supply and bringing down prices. Renewable energy is the cheapest way for Australia to power homes and businesses. The rest of the world is all over this. They've been investing in renewable energy for years in Europe, North America and across Asia.

These guys have their own wacky ideas. We've seen one of their former co-ministers sharing his personal views. I'm not quite sure the other members who were looking at their shoes during his contribution necessarily agreed with him on that fact.

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