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

Thank you, Senator Ghosh. We've seen the risks from not securing Australian energy sovereignty, because that was the position Australia was left in when those opposite left office: a decrepit, broken-down, clapped-out electricity system—four gigawatts out, only one gigawatt in—over the tawdry decade that they mismanaged the nation's energy system; our fuel reserves in Texas—Texas in the United States, not Texas, Queensland; four out of six petrol refineries closing on their watch, maladministered by the man who claims to lead the modern Liberal Party; and their crowning failure, the price of gas at almost $32 a gigajoule when they left office. That was their record in terms of energy security. It could not have been worse, and the problem for them is that Australians remember.