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

We will go down the path of the cheapest available energy. That is what we will do, and that is what we are doing. That is the reality. You might want to front up in front of communities and tell them something which is not true—that there is somehow a magical, cheap nuclear policy. That is what you said at the last election: 'There's a magical, cheap nuclear policy.' That was untrue. There's somehow some other magical policy. The reality is that renewable energy is the cheapest form of new energy.

Now, I don't know which part of the economics of that, Senator, you do not understand, but you continue to stand up in front of communities and mislead them. That is the reality. Well, do you know what we will do? We will get on with the task of reforming Australia's energy system because we want the cheapest, most reliable form of energy for Australians, and we will work to deliver that, unlike you.