Zed Seselja (ACT, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Social Services and Multicultural Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I will respond to the interjection from Senator Brown. It is 'Mr Shorten', but I note there was no objection to what I was saying about Mr Shorten's policies: how Mr Shorten's policies will take us back to the Dark Ages; how Mr Shorten's policies will see Australia on a path to oblivion when it comes to our economy; how Mr Shorten's policies, which he has adopted from the Greens, will see the loss of tens of thousands of jobs; how Mr Shorten's policies will see jobs being exported offshore; and how Mr Shorten's policies will see families having more and more pressure put on them because of ideology. That is the offering from the Australian Labor Party and Mr Shorten. They have now adopted Greens policies. They want to shut down the coal-fired power industry in this country. They want to push up electricity prices. They want to give us a state of being that the people of South Australia have been living now for a number of years and, most starkly, in the last year or so when we've seen the statewide blackouts for the first time in living memory. They want to take us back to the Dark Ages.

I'm very, very pleased to sit here and compare and contrast what a Turnbull coalition government is doing and has done with the alternative that is being put forward by Mr Bill Shorten and the Australian Labor Party. The Australian Labor Party once claimed to stand for workers but it now stands for Greens preferences. This is an Australian Labor Party that would absolutely sell this country out with its energy policy. It would sell out our economy, it would sell out our business sector and it would sell out Australian families.