Stephen Jones (Whitlam, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

If members opposite want to know why there are pressures on our power system and on energy prices in this country, they should go and grab a mirror—22 failed energy policies, not one of them delivered. We're getting on with the job of ensuring that we have an energy policy which will deliver affordable and sustainable energy in this country, and they are doing their level best, day in and day out, to frustrate the delivery of that policy. If Australians want to know why their energy bills are going up, they should look no further than that fellow over there, because there is not a man or woman in this parliament who is more responsible for the increase in energy prices than the member for Hume over there. He has— (Time expired)

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