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

No, I can't confirm that, but I can confirm that we have invested in renewables, particularly in Snowy Hydro 2.0, which will bring new and greater capacity onto the Australian energy market—a measure that was always available for you to pursue, but you never did when you were in government. I can tell you what else the Australian government are doing. By abolishing the limited merits review we have prevented the energy companies from gaming the system. The limited merits review has inflated the costs to Australian consumers in the Australian energy market by $3.5 billion per annum. When we came forward with legislation for that proposal, what did the Australian Labor Party do? They parked the bill in the Senate so that the benefit to the Australian people would be delayed for as long as— (Time expired)