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

I thank the honourable member for his first question in the House. What the honourable member would be well advised to let Christine know is why his party voted three times against energy bill relief for her. That would be a useful thing for the honourable gentleman to communicate to Christine.

We say to Christine: we know that your energy bill is high. That's why we worked so hard to bring it down; that's why we worked so hard on three rounds of energy bill relief; that's why we've worked so hard on energy market reform—so that Christine and everyone like her gets a fairer go in the energy system. That's why we are reforming the default market offer. These are all policies that we worked on in the first term of the Albanese government and are committed to—

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