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

We dealt with issues such as—the member interjects about power prices; we didn't go to an election saying there would be a $600 billion nuclear plan. What we have done is to intervene in the market to put a cap on coal and gas prices. That's something that we did that was pretty unprecedented. We didn't promise we'd do that, but the global inflation spike and the biggest energy crisis since the 1970s required urgent government action. And we did that in partnership with the Perrottet government in New South Wales, a Liberal government in New South Wales that actually behaved responsibly at that time, unlike those opposite, who've opposed all of that like they opposed the energy bill relief, they opposed the tax cuts, they opposed the pay rises for low-income workers, they opposed fee-free TAFE—and said that people don't value it if they don't pay for it—

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