On emissions and the phase out of fossil fuels, Albanese says:

We all recall the gas-led recovery, remember that? Josh Frydenberg used to stand up every Question Time and go on about the Gasled recovery.

Why didn’t it happen? Well it was all about rhetoric because they could land a policy.

What our policy has done is have a 43% reduction by 2030, net zero by 2050, we are working with industry to do that. In areas like Gladstone and the Pilbara and the Hunter Valley and the Upper Spencer Gulf, the real opportunity that is the is for the mix, for renewables but backed with the firming capacity that gas brings.

That’s why me and this bloke (Roger Cook) are on exactly the same page.

When it comes to energy here in WA and right around Australia. 24 of 28 coal-fired power stations announced their closure under the former government. If Peter Dutton was brave enough and had the courage to visit one of the sites, you could visit the site in Queensland and what he would see is a coal-fired power station that isn’t operating.

Why is it not operating? Because towards the end of their life, there are issues with water, with ageing of these power plants and they are shutting down. They are unreliable. That is something that is impacting on reliability in the system and that is why our plan for energy was packed not just by the conservation groups but by the business Australian Industry Group and other groups as well