Susan McDonald (Queensland, National Party, Shadow Minister for Resources and Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Senator Ayres. Minister, a CEO of an Australian energy generator told the Australian Energy Council last week that net zero is one of the biggest things Australia is trying to do in such a short space of time, and having no thought-through, detailed plan on how to achieve the cost of doing it is probably going to halt the transition when the populists go, 'Hell no, can't afford it.' Minister, how high will energy prices get under your net zero plan before Australians do say, as one of our energy sector CEOs put it, 'Hell no, can't afford it'?