Sam Birrell (Nicholls, National Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Regional Health) Share this | Hansard source

This topic is about the government's betrayal of Australians due to higher energy costs and other cost-of-living pressures. You will have noticed that we've been asking a lot of questions of the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. What I want to talk about, to begin, is the subject of integrity in campaigning, because I think that's really important. It's one thing to be on the treasury bench, but how you get there, and what you say to get there, matters in a democracy such as ours.

Before the 2022 election, the Labor Party—who spend 80 per cent of their energy on the messaging and 20 per cent of their energy on the actual policy—got RepuTex to do a bit of work for them. Someone came up and said, 'Look, if this happens, this happens, this happens and that happens, people's energy bills could fall by $275.' So the Prime Minister went out before that election campaign and said, 'Australians' energy bills will fall by $275.' I'm going to quote him.

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