Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

You have not done your homework and you have been caught out again like a truant schoolchild. The average electricity bill went up by approximately 50 per cent over the last four years. We did not hear a blink from you about that, did we? Without the carbon price, the most important driver of rising electricity prices is invested in network infrastructure, so that networks now cost an average household $51 for every $100.

Opposition senators interjecting—

That is why you are yelling out. You do not like the truth in this instance. What you want to do is continue your scare campaign, but it has run out of puff. Your scare campaign has completely run out of puff. That is why your leader is moving his language. He has moved his language from 'wiping out Whyalla' to now 'a python squeeze'. Why is he doing that? It is because he knows, like the community knows, that the scare campaign— (Time expired)

Honourable senators interjecting—