Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

As the Treasury and others have made very clear, if we want to see downward pressure on electricity prices, the best way to do that is through an orderly transition to net zero. That's why it beggars belief that those opposite have taken a different tack. Their policy would push power prices up, not down, and that is the view of a dozen energy retail CEOs and a number of other experts that we would quote if we had more time. As I said a moment ago, it was bad enough that they opposed our cost-of-living help. It was bad enough they opposed our tax cuts. It's worse now that they want to push power prices— (Time expired)

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