House debates

Thursday, 27 October 2022

Questions without Notice

Energy

3:31 pm

Photo of Anthony AlbaneseAnthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

It said very clearly that they would have a 25 per cent reduction in the average wholesale electricity price. They went through all these things that they said would happen, like Battery of the Nation, that just didn't eventuate, and their billion-dollar fund for new energy, of which zero was delivered. Not a single watt, let alone a gigawatt, was delivered as a result of this policy. Instead of that, what they also did was to go on these exercises in, basically, nonsense—spending money, including $4 million they planned and funded to the proponents, mind you, of the Collinsville coal-fired power plant.

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