Prime Minister at the AGl & SunDrive announcement at the former Liddell Power Station.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the annoucement of AGL and solar technology company SunDrive signing a memorandum of understanding to explore the development of a solar panel manufacturing facility at the site of the former Liddell power station.
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00:00 Between the fitters and turners and the electrical apprentices, enjoying it?
00:04 Yeah, yeah.
00:05 Fantastic. Well, great secure career.
00:08 Yeah, that's right.
00:08 Never be out of work, let me tell you.
00:10 It's great. We need 32,000 more Sparkies between now and 2030.
00:14 So you're one of them.
00:15 There you go.
00:15 What about you?
00:16 ... like we did under the previous decade,
00:19 or we can seize the opportunities that are there from the transition to net zero.
00:25 This is a transformation that is happening globally.
00:30 I sat in the parliament for day after day, month after month, year after year,
00:35 where Josh Frydenberg spoke about Liddell and keeping it open,
00:39 when the decision was made to shut Liddell on their watch.
00:44 When there was no new coal-fired power stations created,
00:49 and around the country, of course, closure occurred.
00:52 Without planning for a transition,
00:56 without planning for what happens next, what we know is that if we seize the opportunities,
01:03 Australia is positioned better than any country in the world.
01:07 We have the best solar resources in the world up above us, and they're free.
01:14 [Music]