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

I thank the honourable gentleman for his question. I take responsibility for the energy system in Australia. I take responsibility, as the minister, for progress. I take responsibility for dealing with the headwinds and the setbacks. That's what a minister does. A minister takes responsibility and deals with it—doesn't hide. Electricity rises before an election, for example. That's an option. That is an option available to a minister. That's not an option that I've chosen to take. I take responsibility for the progress. I take responsibility for dealing with the setbacks. I take responsibility for the more than a thousand batteries that have been installed in the honourable member's electorate, the 1,139, that have been installed in the member's electorate since 1 July. I note that, in Victoria, the wholesale price of energy in May 2022 was $233 a megawatt hour, and today it is $37 a megawatt hour. I do take responsibility for all the above.

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