Malcolm Turnbull
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard 28 Jun
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I mean, when I was a kid, when I was working as a political journalist,
in the new south wales state parliament when neville rand was the leader of the labor party most of the labor members who were trade unionists had been had worked they were bricklayers they were plumbers they were engine drivers you know boiler makers they were people who'd work now
the they those that have worked for trade unions have were have university graduates who have had jobs you know as officials have never actually worked i mean i used to goad them in the house i used to say you know as far as you know the labor members are concerned uh manual labor is a mexican bandit you know they hadn't encountered it and i think
the, there is a, you get a lack of sort of real world understanding of, understanding of how the real world operates in politics.
And I think it's a problem.
I couldn't say how big a problem it is in the UK, but it's certainly a problem
in our system.
So yes, we can always be more innovative.
Look, we're a small economy.
We've got to be innovative, competitive, all of those things.
Innovation and science was a huge part of my economic agenda.
And I think that was something that really worked.
But look, we're doing pretty well on the clean energy transition, for example.
You know, the climate change deniers notwithstanding.
We've got the biggest penetration of rooftop solar in the world, massive rollout of storage.
You know, we've obviously got the big Snowy 2 project I started underway, but thousands and thousands of batteries all around the country.
We are making, for a country that had been hitherto totally dependent on fossil fuels, we're making a very big...
a successful transition to clean energy and demonstrating, and this is an important point, electricity prices have been coming down.
And they're coming down because solar and storage is cheaper.
And so when I was John Howard's environment minister 20 plus years ago, I was having to argue that we needed to pay more to save the planet.
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