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

Give her a pass. In defence of the Leader of the Opposition, she was complimenting me on my tie. I'm prepared to take the interjection.

We entered the global energy crisis ill prepared because, under the previous government, four gigawatts of dispatchable power had left the grid and one gigawatt had come on.

Opposition members interjecting—

I hear moans from those opposite. As you know, Mr Speaker, I'm always trying to find a bipartisan note at the dispatch box, so I'll quote Senator Canavan, who recently said:

The other thing I often hear from government senators and members of the other place is that the former government failed because four gigawatts—

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