Dan Tehan (Wannon, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The part-time energy minister is at it again—just splashing taxpayers' cash around to try and make up for his failed energy policies, which are causing Australian households an enormous amount of pain. As a matter of fact, since Labor have been in government electricity prices have risen by 40 per cent. They're driving up inflation in this country, and it could well lead to an interest-rate increase, which is going to put further pressure on the household budget.

But what does this part-time energy minister think the response should be? 'Let's just keep splashing the cash around.' And we've seen it now. He's handpicked a particular EV vehicle he wants to subsidise. But not only that; he's done a secret deal with the Victorian state government on offshore wind. There's no transparency. No-one knows what the cost is. How much is it? Look at his Capacity Investment Scheme. He's spending billions and billions of dollars. Where is the transparency? There is none.

This fellow, this part-time energy minister, should focus on household budgets and deliver lower energy prices for households, because, at the moment, they're forecast to go up by another 24 per cent this financial year. Part-time minister, focus full time on getting electricity prices down.