Senate debates
Thursday, 2 July 2026
Questions without Notice
Energy
2:49 pm
Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Industry and Innovation) | Hansard source
It will be a source of disappointment. Every time Australia succeeds, it's a source of heartache and misery over there, isn't it? You feel sad when Australia does well.
We are making progress. There are 22 gigawatts of new generation capacity in the grid. Default market offer shows that the Albanese government's work in this area, after a decade of disinvestment and decay in the electricity system—it was utterly irresponsible, what Mr Taylor did. He wrecked our fuel refineries. He wrecked our electricity system—
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