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

I thank the honourable member for the question and congratulate her on her first question in this House. The honourable member—it's her first term, so she wouldn't have been here when the member for Hume hid an energy price rise before the 2022 election. Perhaps that's why the honourable member got the job, because it's a difficult job.

I congratulate the opposition, too, for their temerity on asking about energy matters this week, given the chaos we've seen from honourable members opposite. But the fact of the matter is, on these matters, under this government, we not only have policy but we have transparency. When we have difficult figures, we don't change the law to hide them like the member for Hume did just before the 2022 federal election, which should disqualify him from ministerial office forever!

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