Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

The impact from the former government's lack of energy policy is being felt across the economy by Australian families and businesses. Skyrocketing wholesale electricity prices are putting pressure on budgets. They promised a gas-lead recovery and you had a gas crisis. Renewables, the cheapest form of energy, declined under you. The fact is the lack of policy certainty, the lack of any policy framework, the chaos—do you know what it did? It stifled investment. It slowed the uptake of renewables. Instead of being well placed to deal with this challenge, Australians were left vulnerable by a government that had 22 energy policies.

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