Senate debates

Thursday, 22 June 2017

Questions without Notice

Workplace Relations

2:29 pm

Photo of George BrandisGeorge Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Polley, I am surprised you would be asking that question when under the Labor government in which you served electricity prices doubled. The price to Australian households of their electricity bill doubled in the period of your government, whereas, as the Finkel report and the charts and graphs in it demonstrate, under this government electricity prices have stabilised.

Nevertheless, as I have pointed out to the chamber many times, it is necessary for us to be proactive to ensure that electricity prices do not go up, to ensure that electricity prices remain affordable, which is why the government have already announced—the Prime Minister, Mr Frydenberg and Senator Canavan announced this on Tuesday—a series of measures that we are taking to ensure that electricity remains affordable, informed by the Finkel report, informed by discussions in our party room— (Time expired)

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