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

And we intervened into the normal market processes because there were extraordinary times, and the former CEO of Shell, Mr van Beurden, said this:

You cannot have a market that behaves in such a way—logically and effectively and everything else—that it's going to damage a significant part of society … One way or another there needs to be government intervention.

We were prepared to intervene; they weren't. They opposed it, like they voted against their own policies that they've introduced when it comes to energy.

Honourable members interjecting—

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