Hollie Hughes (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

For those listening at home and for those in the chamber, this is what we on this side refer to as 'transmission Tuesday'. But transmission Tuesday has now been pushed to Thursday, because those opposite in the government have lost complete control of the Senate. It's an absolute shemozzle. What we're asking for—and this is our seventh request—is to establish an inquiry. We just want to have a look at the Rewiring the Nation program. In this race to 82 per cent renewables, the government—along with their mates in the Greens and Senator David Pocock—are absolutely standing against and refusing to allow this place just to have a look at what impact Rewiring the Nation is going to have.

We've just had a big referendum in this country around the Voice. And my colleague Senator Canavan just spoke about farmers, and they are absolutely critical to this debate.

What I find absolutely astounding is that one of the other impacts that will occur through the bulldozing of rural and regional areas, particularly, to put these power lines up will be on cultural heritage sites of Aboriginal people. So those opposite who claim to be all in favour of listening to Indigenous Australians and respecting their culture—