00:00 They're saying, "Look, we need to do stuff and get on with things, and if we do, it'll
00:04 be OK."
00:05 This is called the statement of opportunities.
00:08 So they're saying, "Here's what we have to be done, has to be done to meet these challenges."
00:11 They've never used language quite this strongly before, and the reason for that is we haven't
00:16 been building those renewable energy projects and the transmission to connect them as fast
00:21 as we needed to, and that's where the biggest problem lies.
00:23 All the stuff that we're supposed to be building has not been happening as fast as it needs
00:26 to.
00:27 We've got very good targets, but we haven't got the darts to play the game.
00:30 We need the darts without darts.
00:32 It's not dart games.
00:33 So what we need to do is get on with this, and that's what they're saying.
00:36 There's lots of projects there, but the actual planning and the regulatory approvals and
00:41 all those sorts of things have been holding us up.
00:43 I'm getting all the states and territory governments lined up to be able to approve things like
00:47 building the roads to connect the wind farm, all that sort of stuff, is way behind where
00:51 it needs to be, and that needs to change.
00:53 Otherwise, then we will be facing real risks in the coming summers.
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