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Senator AYRES (New South Wales—Minister for Industry and Innovation and Minister for Science) (14:55): This is, of course, nation-building work. This work, the work of new wind, new solar and new transmission, is nation-building work. It is blue-collar-industry-building work.

It is the kind of work that is going to set our regions up for future jobs, future factories, future industries and more economic resilience. The chief barrier to that, of course, is policy uncertainty. We saw the outcome of policy dysfunction while this lot were in government.

We saw the behaviour last year in the lead-up to the election which saw them proposing a policy framework which would have delivered less electricity and been more expensive. Now we can see they haven't learnt their lesson. They are doing the same thing again.

They are going back to the well. What there will be— (Time expired)