Craig Kelly (Hughes, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I hear the member for Newcastle interjecting. How many people in your electorate, Member for Newcastle, had their electricity cut-off? Did you go around and knock on the doors of those seniors and ask how many of them had had their electricity cut off because of the policies of the Labor Party? What a disgrace!

Then in this motion we had the shameful comments of the member for Shortland associating herself with the most dishonest scare campaign being run by New South Wales Labor and their union mates about the privatisation of electricity in New South Wales. They used this scare campaign, this false campaign, that the privatisation will increase electricity prices, when the exact opposite is true. Even the chairman of the ACCC has said that 'electricity prices will be lower with this privatisation,' and the member for Shortland comes in here and tries to beef up this scare campaign.

I will leave you with a quote. This is the quote from former Labor minister Mr Martin Ferguson. He said about this dishonest scare campaign:

It's just deliberately misleading the public, creating unnecessary fear and trying to scare people into voting for Labor not on merit but on misinformation. In many ways I am ashamed of the Party.

That is not Craig Kelly speaking, that is not the Prime Minister, that is not a conservative commentator. The words 'I am ashamed of the Labor Party' are the words of a former member of the Labor government.

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