Deborah O'Neill (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate take note of the answers given by the Minister for Finance and the Public Service (Senator Cormann) to questions without notice asked by Senators Singh and Brown today relating to energy policy.

Those questions went to the matter of the government's latest version of an energy policy. There have been so many it's hard to keep track. Perhaps they wanted to get away from three-letter slogans, so they called this one something more colloquial: 'the big-stick energy policy'. We were actually supposed to buy that there was some integrity with this. What a con it was from the very beginning—the government and their big stick.

As things have developed with this policy, just like the other ones—