Wednesday, 17 June 2026

 Lily D’AMBROSIO (Mill Park – Minister for Climate Action, Minister for Energy and Resources, Minister for the State Electricity Commission) (14:18): On this side of the house we back Victorian families every day, saving them money on their bills and working hard to make life that bit easier for them. We know that right now Victorians need good local jobs, cost-of-living relief and locally generated power that they can rely on. That is what the transition to renewable energy is helping us to deliver. This is what our policies are delivering: 68,000 jobs in energy by 2040, 37 per cent of those in regional Victoria, the lowest power bills in the country and 11.3 per cent of our electricity generated by rooftop solar on people’s homes.

I want to refer members to a report released just this Monday by the Clean Energy Council about the risks of alternative policies that are out there in Victoria. The Clean Energy Council has stated:

A two-kilometre setback would gut Victoria’s development pipeline and with it, any credible path to meeting future energy demand.

We know that if you do not have enough electricity, the price of it goes up and you drive up power bills for every Victorian. The report goes on to say that this alternative policy would make:

… Victoria the most restrictive clean energy jurisdiction in Australia.

Victorians support more renewable energy, not a brake on it, because they know that it makes good sense on their bills and it provides jobs for their kids – good jobs, 68,000 of them, and 2000 more apprenticeships through the SEC apprenticeship academy – and real bill savings every day, freeing up more money that they can use at the supermarket.

As confirmed by One Nation today at the National Press Club, the One Nation–Liberal coalition will stop renewable energy projects, and every Victorian family will pay the price. Not under the Allan Labor government.