George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Pratt, you should not believe everything you read in the newspapers, because, if you start believing everything you read in the newspapers, you will end up asking silly questions like that. What the government will be doing, Senator Pratt—as I have said before, but perhaps you might care to listen—is we will be making some decisions in the near future in relation to energy supply in this country, an area of policy which has bedevilled, I think it is fair to say, both sides of politics for many years now. We will be making a series of decisions, informed by science, informed by engineering, informed by economics but not informed by ideology. The result of those decisions will be to ensure that Australia resolves the trilemma of affordable electricity and reliable supply while at the same time remaining faithful to our international commitments to reduce emissions. That it what we will be doing. It is something you singularly failed to do when you were in government.