Mr BOWEN (McMahon—Minister for Climate Change and Energy) (14:20): I got the gist, Mr Speaker. I thank the honourable member for his question, but I'm afraid the honourable member is not quite correct on some of the issues that he's raised there. In relation to the AEMO statement last week, AEMO actually underlined the need for more urgent investment in dispatchable renewables, a message this government agrees with. And it's not the first time they've said it. AEMO has issued the Electricity Statement of Opportunities twice a year for several years. For example, in 2021 they said: … the NEM will need more generation, storage and transmission than is currently operating … In 2020 they said: Risks remain that under high demand conditions, or if prolonged generation or transmission outages were to occur again, there may be insufficient generation to meet demand … They said very similar in 2019. They said very similar in 2018. Mr Katter interjecting— The SPEAKER: Order, Member for Kennedy! Mr BOWEN: They said very similar in 2017. It's all there laid out. Mr Taylor: What did you do about Kurri Kurri? Mr BOWEN: The honourable member for Hume asks what we did about it. Well, they were in office, and they ignored these continual warnings—a decade of denial and delay. The honourable member for Kennedy says Snowy is the only new generation coming on. I'm afraid that is not correct. In fact, I'm happy to share with the House that in the last financial year AEMO approved 6.8 gigawatts of new generation. That's up from four gigawatts the year before. That's an increase of 2.6 gigawatts, in the last financial year, of new generation approved by AEMO. In fact, AEMO has said there are 3.4 more gigawatts available going into this summer than last summer. There is more generation available this summer than last summer, and the bulk of that is renewable, which is a good thing. Mr Katter interjecting— Mr Ted O'Brien interjecting— The SPEAKER: I warn the member for Fairfax. Mr Katter: A point of order, Mr Speaker: the question was that 8,000 is going off. The minister has said 6,000— The SPEAKER: Resume your seat, Member for Kennedy. Mr Katter interjecting— The SPEAKER: Resume your seat. Points of order are not a time to debate the question. The minister has the call. Mr BOWEN: AEMO also said last week that federal and state initiatives, including transmission projects identified in the Integrated Systems Plan and mechanisms delivering firming capacity, such as the Commonwealth's Capacity Investment Scheme, can address many identified risks over the 10-year horizon. That's a Commonwealth scheme which this Commonwealth government has delivered, which the previous government talked about and could not deliver. What we need is more investment in generation and dispatchable energy. That's exactly what we're getting under the policy settings of this government. That's exactly what we lacked for 10 long years.