Senator Malcolm Roberts

10 hours ago

These questions relate to the GenCost 2025–26 consultation draft, a collaborative report used to estimate the cheapest levelised cost of electricity (LCOE) for various energy technologies.

This report assigns shorter financial lifespans to baseload and firming technologies (30 years for coal, nuclear, and hydro) compared to their physical capabilities, which artificially inflates their per-megawatt-hour costs while favouring wind and solar.

The report incorrectly excludes brownfield site advantages for coal and nuclear generation, putting them at an unfair cost disadvantage against greenfield wind and solar.

And battery backup costs are separated rather than bundled directly into wind and solar expenses, masking their true total cost.

I asked whether the government had directed agencies to produce "fraudulent costings" to support net-zero targets, an assertion strongly rejected by the officials and Senator Tim Ayres.

Dr Mayfield from the CSIRO defended the GenCost methodology as a consistent, independent and robust process developed in consultation with industry and technical experts. Because he didn’t have the specific draft on hand, Dr Mayfield took detailed questions regarding capacity factors, exact asset valuations and cost adjustments on notice.

Senator Ayres strongly defended the government's energy transition, dismissing my position on this as "imported talking points." He argued that the GenCost framework reflects modern economic, engineering and technological realities, such as falling battery costs and said that attempting to revive old baseload models would weaken the economy, driving up costs.

One Nation will scrap Australia's Net Zero by 2050 policy target along with all associated legislation, mandates and subsidies. We will withdraw from all international climate commitments like the Paris Agreement and back cheap base-load energy sources like coal, gas, hydro and nuclear energy.

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Senator Malcolm Roberts

20 hours ago

The review of Comcare's legislation was delivered over a year ago and concluded the law is so outdated it must be rewritten.

At Senate Estimates, I asked when action would finally be taken. The answer? The government is still "considering the report."

Australian workers deserve better.

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