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

economically sensible suite of policies that, as I said to you before, are focused on two objectives: to make electricity as affordable as it can be and to make supply as reliable as it can be. As I said a moment ago, we certainly won't be taking lectures from you, Senator Carr, or your colleagues, who presided over the fastest increase in electricity prices in modern history—who, in the state of South Australia, with their ideological obsession with a 50 per cent renewables target, couldn't even keep the lights on. What an indictment. In a modern, 21st century economy, you couldn't even keep the lights on, because of your obsession with ideology.