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Liberal senator seeks to blame renewable energy for Whyalla steelworks issues
As Jonathan Barrett reported yesterday, there are a number of factors that led to the Whyalla steelworks being placed under administration.
How did they end up in this position? How did manufacturing end up going to the wall in Australia? And Karl, it is the cost of energy. Labor’s renewables only pipe dream has pushed the cost of energy up in Australia, and you’ve just got businesses – including manufacturers – now going to the wall.
Mr Albanese, I think, needs to actually take a bit of responsibility here and say the renewables only pipe dream is destroying manufacturing and businesses.
You cannot take the sort of action that the South Australian government has undertaken today lightly. You can’t do it on a whim. You can’t do it just because there’s a media storm. You’ve got to do it because you have the evidence and justification to do it.
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Source: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2025/feb/20/australia-news-live-richard-marles-defence-china-png-pacific-election-cost-of-living-anthony-albanese-peter-dutton-nsw-vic-qld-ntwnfb
