Julie Collins (Franklin, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Small Business) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for her question. We all know, as I said in this place last week, that small businesses are facing challenges, and one of them is rising electricity prices because, of course, you didn't have the guts to tell them prior to the election that you were going to put up their electricity prices. The former minister over here actually hid, deliberately hid—made a deliberate decision not to tell small businesses that their power prices were going to increase because of your government's inaction over the last decade.

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