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

Thank you, Senator Brown. I think we got a fair bit of exposure to what the alternative views are just a minute ago. We say as a government that energy security, fuel security, is industrial policy; it is economic policy. It means, as our unreliable coal-fired power station system collapses around its ears because of the failure of the show over there, that we need to rebuild our electricity system in a responsible way. It's not the way of One Nation and some of their friends in the Nationals and the Liberals; they're retweeting propaganda.

While we've got to a position, in this country, where our fuel reserves are the best they've been for 15 years, far-right extremist scaremongering from over there has had people lining up at petrol stations when there was no need. People over there talk about war profiteers. The show over here are political war profiteers. They love creating a sense of crisis, they love creating a sense of drama and—