Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

We have made strong progress, and we are going to continue to make strong progress, even if we've got some of these characters opposite running around campaigning against electricity investment hundreds of kilometres from their homes, with social media memes imported from overseas they're punching out into regional communities. What have regional communities done to deserve the National Party? What have regional communities done to deserve the white-anting and undermining of their economic progress that the National Party has embarked upon? When will the moderates in the Liberal Party actually stand up for sensible economic policy and sensible climate and energy policy, get with the program and follow the lowest-cost model of modern electricity instead of indulging in this sort of far-right ideological frolic?