Ted O'Brien (Fairfax, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

Over 600,000 and rising. What reduction in household power bills will the minister commit to? Silence! This is the problem. He knows very well that he has broken that promise. This gets back to why I have moved this amendment. I had no intention of having this sort of back and forth, but I'm not going to accept on behalf of the Australian people, especially regional Australians, this minister pretending he's doing the bidding of the people of Australia. He says that this power should be in the hands of the minister of the day regardless when we know very well he was silent on this issue when he was not the minister. Since he has become the minister he wants all the power he can get, and it will be the Australian people who lose.

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