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

Implicit in that question from the member for Fairfax is that, if you just have a nuclear reactor in every state, in every electorate, sometime in the 2040s, it will all be fixed. I hope the member for Fairfax has told his constituents in his electorate that the member for Hume deliberately changed the law to conceal from them, ahead of the last election, a 20 per cent increase in their electricity bills. I hope that he has apologised to constituents for voting against the energy bill relief that has provided support at a time where we have seen global energy prices increase. But I hope he told them as well that he was against the cap on coal and gas prices, and against the rebates for households and businesses. I hope he's told his constituents that his policy is to invest billions—who knows how much, because we haven't seen anything—of taxpayer dollars in the most expensive form of new energy. And I hope he has tried to find a single business leader from the energy sector who has said that his plan stacks up at all.

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