Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

We all look forward to seeing details of Mr Weatherill's announcement and to see what it may or may not do. But I do have some doubts about whether or not Mr Weatherill will be able to achieve all of the things that Senator Farrell has asked about. It was only four years ago, in the last South Australian election, that Mr Weatherill was making a promise suggesting that they would provide solar panels for some 5,000 low-income families. Four years later, do you know what's happened in relation to Mr Weatherill's last promise on this matter? Only 400 of the 5,000 have been delivered.

What we saw yesterday was Mr Weatherill engage in another stunt with Elon Musk to try to get a bit of extra attention and media publicity. But we know that when it comes to these promises they don't deliver at the state level. They didn't deliver on their promises at the last election, they no doubt won't deliver this time, and it is a case of playing catch-up—catch-up with Mr Marshall, who had already announced support for battery— (Time expired)