Wednesday, 12 November 2025

 Tom McINTOSH (Eastern Victoria) (23:27): (2091) How fitting that the Shadow Minister for Energy and Resources in the Liberal Party came in talking about energy today of all days, when the Liberal Party are tearing themselves apart on energy. For 25 years the Liberals have had nothing in the energy space. For 10 years when they were in power federally they had a different media adviser every year wheeling out a different policy that got put forward. We had nuclear, we had fracking and we had all sorts of things. ScoMo of all people put up net zero, and yet the Liberals are going to walk away from it, even when last month 50 per cent of Australia’s electricity came from renewable sources. The Liberal Party are turning their backs on their own policies.

What is it that the state Liberals believe in? Do we understand what the state Liberals believe in in the energy space? Are they going to frack? Are they going to tear up pristine agricultural farmland to frack farms for gas? Are they going to go back to nuclear? Are they going to go back to the small modular nuclear reactors?

Members interjecting.

Tom McINTOSH: We are not going back to small modular nuclear reactors. We do not know what the Liberals believe in. They do not know what they believe in. They are tearing themselves apart. It is a nuclear reaction in the Liberal Party. Again, it has gone on for years and for years. My adjournment question is for the Minister for Energy and Resources and Minister for Climate Action in the other place: what is the Labor government doing in the space of the renewable energy target and emissions reduction?