Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

This is probably the most ironic. They say they want more housing, but they oppose every housing development in their electorates. Here's the thing: we are making the biggest transition in Australian industrial history to get from 30-something per cent renewable energy to 82 per cent renewable energy in our grid. Of course it doesn't happen overnight. We need solar farms. We need wind farms. We need transmission lines. They're going to oppose all of those, and, at the same time, they're going to cry crocodile tears about the fact that we're not moving to renewables quickly enough. We've got a decade to catch up on. We had a decade of inaction from those opposite. We had a decade of inaction when we could have been moving on renewable energy, except the Liberals teamed up with the Greens to oppose action on climate change when we were last in government. Yes, we've got a big job to catch up on, but we're getting on with the job of getting Australia to net zero.

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