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

Those are not conflicting objectives, because the global shift to net zero is a massive economic opportunity for our country, for our economy and for its people. I think if anybody is scratching around for a reason why those opposite are unfit for office, it's all these questions that suggest that Australia should not have an influential voice in the direction that the world is taking on energy. On this side of the House, we're providing electricity bill relief, we had the gas caps, we've got the battery subsidies, which are working extremely well, and we're introducing cleaner, cheaper, more renewable, reliable energy into the system.

If those opposite really cared about power prices for Australians, they would support our efforts to introduce that cleaner and cheaper energy. Also, if they really cared about lower electricity prices for Australians, they wouldn't have come up with this economic insanity of trying to run interference on an orderly transition to net zero in our economy.

Now, I'm asked about energy CEOs. I've made it clear that, whether it's Frank Calabria from Origin, the dozen energy retail CEOs who issued the report, Mark Collette from Energy Australia—

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