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Their wordsI think it is a good thing that Karl and others are allowing more voices to be heard. I do not always agree with those voices. But in a free society, I deserve to hear different opinions if I choose to.
Their wordsPeople like Petrina Morgan, who has been helping to fight against large-scale batteries that are planned to be installed just hundreds of metres from someone’s home. Large-scale batteries are industrial equipment, and they should be placed in industrial zones, not next to residential homes.
Their wordsIf we ran our coal-fired power stations 80 per cent of the time — they are currently running only about 60 per cent of the time — that would be the equivalent of bringing three new coal-fired power stations online overnight. That would reduce power prices, just as is happening in Queensland.
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