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

To deal with the question, as I said in my previous answer, energy prices have been high around the world, including in Australia. So we, as the government, decided to do something about it by providing energy bill relief opposed by those opposite. Our policy is to introduce more energy, with 7.7 gigawatts introduced to the grid—not promised plans or in development but connected to the grid and operating—as opposed to those opposite, particularly the member for Hume, who oversaw four gigawatts of dispatchable power leave the grid and one gigawatt come on. Our plan is more of the cheapest form of energy and the fastest to deploy—

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