Richard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, representing the Prime Minister. Minister, since your government came to office and abolished the price on carbon, the wholesale price of electricity has doubled and pollution continues to fuel extreme weather and threaten the Great Barrier Reef. Despite all that, your government has ruled out a price on carbon, you have ruled out extending the renewable energy target, you have ruled out an emissions intensity scheme, you have ruled out regulating electricity prices and now you're ruling out a clean energy target. Minister, when are you going to accept that having an energy policy that satisfies no-one except for Tony Abbott and your big coal donors is a recipe for high prices, more pollution and fewer jobs?