Senate debates Bills
Electricity Infrastructure Legislation Amendment Bill 2025; Second Reading
Jonathon Duniam Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Environment, Fisheries and Forestry
10:39 am
I'll take the interjection from the assistant minister. He says that we will have more electricity. Well, I'm afraid we have a situation where we are facing blackouts because of the unreliability of the source of generation that this government chooses, which is intermittent and unreliable, to the exclusion of all other technologies, and they refuse to talk about other technologies. They don't want to work with coal energy generators to extend the life of power stations. They don't want to actually work with gas producers to bring more on for domestic consumption because, of course, in the cities—
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