Varun Ghosh (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

It's a time-honoured practice from this opposition to lament problems that we have but oppose the solutions. Good energy policy in this country requires vision, evidence based policies and measures, consistency and predictability. It needs us to be able to plan as a nation how we're going to generate the energy we need, and it needs that to permit investment in the relevant infrastructure and delivery mechanisms.

The government's policy is about delivering reliable, affordable and sustainable energy to the Australian people. Senator Smith mentioned two of those things but not the third, which was sustainability, and that sits at the heart—