Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

The honourable member refers to modelling done in 2021, which we took to the Australian people in 2022. The Australian people also had a chance to have their say in 2025 on the matter of competing plans for energy prices. We accept that judgement of the people. We accept it modestly, the Australian people's judgement on 3 May. Perhaps the Australian people looked at the fact that energy prices have fallen, as I just said, by 6.2 per cent in the year just gone. They would know that that wasn't inevitable. Prices would have been 16.6 per cent higher if the honourable member had had his way and energy bill relief had not applied. That was a key difference.

They also know that the opposition went to the election with a very significant plan. We've always recognised that it has a very significant plan on energy. The Australian people passed judgement on that. They knew that that plan would lead to higher energy bills—

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