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Interview with minister for NDIS and government services Bill Shorten now. First question is about energy policy.

Shorten says the real issue about power, in my opinion is for 10 years we've had a decade of denial and delay."

What we are suffering from this winter in the short term is floods of coal mines, outages of a plant which is more than 50 years old, but the real long-term problem is that we haven't made a plan for transition to renewables, now the chickens have come home to roost.