Senator HUGHES (New South Wales) (17:59): The anticipation! And I'm a bit disappointed I'm following Senator Hanson; I was fired up to follow Senator Green, and the amount of rubbish that we hear coming from the other side. But then I hear sense coming from Senator Hanson at the far end of the chamber and I start to breathe again. I would like to thank Senator Hanson for getting me worked up again when she mentioned we may not be able to get a coffee anymore—back to International Roast. I can tell you, that is not happening. Senator McGrath: There is nothing wrong with International Roast! Senator HUGHES: Senator McGrath, I mean, I know we love a Cheerio and a little cubed cheese, but one has to draw the line somewhere. To hear Senator Green come here and talk about the plans they had and all those wonderful things they were going to deliver through energy. They were going to deliver, if you noticed—anyone playing along at home—hundreds of dollars of savings off the bill. I thought I would remind Senator Green it was $297. That was how much those opposite were going to take off everybody's power bills. Unfortunately, it hasn't quite happened that way. In fact, if you talk to any Australian out there—and we actually do on this side speak to real Australians, particularly Australians who run small businesses who employ people—there isn't a person whose power bill has not gone up. Businesses and Australian households are facing power bills with increases of significantly more than $297 a year, so at no point will we ever see those bills come down. Thank you, Senator McDonald, for your motion this evening, but we are here to look at the AEMO report, which is interesting. But what is more interesting is when you line it up next to the GenCost report that this government now relies on so heavily. We have Minister Bowen—'blackout Bowen' as he should potentially be known—in the other place whose nickname I heard on 2GB the other day was 'Casanova'. I had a think about it and it is because of everything he touches— The PRESIDENT: Senator Brown, on a point of order? Senator Carol Brown: I ask that Senator Hughes withdraw that reflection on Minister Bowen. She knows quite well that she needs to refer to people in the other place by their appropriate titles. The PRESIDENT: I will remind you, Senator Hughes, that I know you were quoting from the radio, but that is also inappropriate, so if you would withdraw the comment without reference to it. Senator HUGHES: I will withdraw, but I need some guidance, because I'm repeating what a nickname is. I'm happy to refer to him as 'Mr Bowen'. Am I allowed to say what his nickname is, or are we not allowed to reference it? Senator Carol Brown interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Senator Brown, I'm in control of the Senate. Senator HUGHES: How would you— The PRESIDENT: Order! Across the chamber. Senator HUGHES: I'm trying to get a direction. The PRESIDENT: Excuse me, Senator Hughes, when I explained and asked you to withdraw, I also explained to you that it went to references used in other places—that is, on the radio. So I will ask you to withdraw the comment without making any reference to it. Senator HUGHES: I withdraw. If you listen to Ben Fordham on Radio 2GB, he has a particular name for Minister Bowen and it's really quite funny. I believe it's Ray Hadley who coined the name, which is particularly funny. I will guide you there, since apparently I'm not allowed to reference anything said anywhere. Minister Bowen, I have noticed, is building an industry. We noticed that he said he was going to build solar. He needed solar panels and wind. He needed 22,000 solar panel panels to be built every day and 40 wind turbines every month. When asked at estimates at the beginning of this year—81 days since he made the claims—the department couldn't tell us how many they produced; they only acknowledged they were well behind schedule. We now know there would need to be up to somewhere like eight million a year. They would need to have put in 300,000 by now. We know that at no stage has that been reached. The industry that Mr Bowen is building—anyone who is a bit of an online investor, share trader, maybe have a look—is the candle industry. I bought some the other day. I will make sure I put them in a cupboard and will probably look to buy a few more, because we are reasonably sure, as summer approaches, and particularly since Queensland is already having a pretty hot day, that we might need a few candles as the blackouts roll out. Senator Hanson just frightened us all by saying that there will be no coffee machine going and we will all be on International Roast, that there will be no Netflix. You won't be at home on your iPad, having it charged up with your Wi-Fi working; no, you will be sitting by a candle. It will be a romantic candlelit evening on a hot summer's night because the power will have gone out because the wind won't be blowing and the sun won't be shining. The demonisation of those opposite of the gas industry is unbelievable. To hear Senator Green go on—here's a little reminder for you all that sit opposite. You're the government. You can say whatever you like about what happened eight, nine or 10 years ago. Well done. Well done, people. We can all do Rudd-Gillard-Rudd too. We were all there at that time as well. But, let me tell you, they are not— Senator Ciccone: Abbott, Turnbull— Senator HUGHES: Listen, Senator Ciccone, you interject there, and all interjections, I may remind you, are disorderly. Senator Ciccone: Not all of them. Senator HUGHES: They're all disorderly, Senator Ciccone. But they won't be naming Tony Abbott when it's 42 degrees and the aircon's not working because the wind and solar aren't working. They'll be blaming Mr Albanese and Minister Bowen.