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

We saw what the alternative might be; we had a little glimpse into what the alternative might look like, over the miserable decade—the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison decade—of indolence and failure on energy policy. We saw what that did for Australians. That wrecking impulse that is so fundamental to your approach in this area of policy hurts ordinary Australians. It costs jobs. It cost jobs when you were in government. The only difference now is that the position that the Liberals and Nationals have adopted is more extreme and more likely to lead to dislocation and disinvestment than in the last decade.