Mr HILL (Bruce) (15:37): MPIs are my second favourite thing, after the Fed Chamber, where good speeches go to die, but it is terrific to have a sensible topic for debate for once on the MPI. It is important that Australia accelerates the transition away from fossil fuels by electrifying people's houses with cheaper renewable energy. It is so important. It's obvious that it's the teals and the crossbench bringing this debate, not the opposition, because it is a sensible topic for the parliament to spend an hour debating. Renewable energy will lead to lower pollution and lower emissions. It's the cheapest form of new energy, unlike Mr Nuclear Sheen over there— The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Ms Claydon ): I am sorry, member for Bruce. If you're going to refer to a member, you need to use their proper title. Mr HILL: The member for Fairfax—he's not the suppository of all wisdom, to quote George Bush. But it is so important for Australia's economic future. This is the bit that they don't get. Australia has the best renewable energy resources of any OECD country. We can reclaim the advantage in cheap, ubiquitous power that we had through the 1960s and seventies and onshore manufacturing, creating tens of thousands of jobs, many of them in regional areas, if only this entire parliament—not just this side of the House and the people over there but all of the parliament—would embrace a renewable and clean energy future. The crossbench and the teals get it. They get it on renewable energy. Even the Greens political party, I'll admit, so far get it, and, rarely, their actions in the parliament actually match their words. Unlike, of course, with affordable housing, where they see one thing in their electorate and then do another up here. When push comes to shove, the Greens political party always vote against affordable housing, but on renewable energy they've done the right thing so far this term. There is one group in parliament, of course, that doesn't get it. That's the opposition—the Liberals and the Nationals—who are stuck in the Dark Ages after the decade of delay and division and dysfunction. They're still arguing over whether climate change is real, instead of seizing those opportunities—lower pollution, cheapest form of new power and jobs, jobs and jobs. Even from a national security point of view, every major military of every developed country has climate change risk near the top of their risk profile. Those geniuses over there say they're serious about national security. If they were, they would be serious about action on climate change. They're two sides of the same coin. But words don't convince them. Reason doesn't convince them. Evidence doesn't convince them. Let me put it in political terms which they might understand. The only reason that these fine women, the teals, are sitting over here, occupying these seats is the previous government's inaction on climate change. I'll illustrate it. Remember Josh Frydenberg? Remember this other former future prime minister, Tim Wilson? We had Dave Sharma; remember him? He's a goner. The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Ms Claydon ): Member for Bruce, there is a fine distinction between legitimate visual aids to support a speech and the use of props for dramatic effect. Mr HILL: I've only got three left. I've got Celia Hammond and Trent Zimmerman—and Jason Falinski, who might actually be the new president of the New South Wales Liberal Party. He got beaten too—didn't he?—because of the former government. I could table them. I seek leave to table the photos of the former future prime ministers. The DEPUTY SPEAKER: Is leave granted? Mr Ted O'Brien: Not only is leave not granted, but I point out, Deputy Speaker, that he is defying your instruction. The DEPUTY SPEAKER: I think I can think for myself, thank you. Leave is not granted, and I ask the member for Bruce to keep the photographs down. Mr HILL: They're down there. I'll keep them. Mr Ted O'Brien: Put them back on your wall. Mr HILL: I'll send them to you. Words don't convince them. They don't even want to see the pictures. But the major reason that the member for Wentworth can bring this motion is a decade of inaction on climate change—actually, maybe I misled the House. It's probably the second major reason. I'd say the member for Cook is the major reason. But certainly their inaction on climate change is the— Honourable members interjecting— Mr HILL: Let's never overstate our own part in these things! They had 22 failed energy policies, and they couldn't implement one of them. This government is acting. The No. 1 criterion to get power prices down is certainty for new investment. That is what they failed to provide for a decade. We're rewiring the nation. We're fixing the grid to create the conditions for renewable energy to move around the country. Remember the geniuses over there and the Snowy Hydro—the new battery? Except they forgot to fix the grid. It's like getting a new battery pack for your phone without the cable to plug into the network.