Senate debates

Monday, 20 August 2018

Questions without Notice

Energy

2:11 pm

Photo of Bridget McKenzieBridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Regional Communications) Share this | Hansard source

I will step you through: we have the cabinet meeting, the details are presented, I'm happy with those, we go to a National Party party room meeting. The National Party is very proud to be part of a government that's taking direct action to lower power prices in this country by backing and supporting the construction and refurbishment of energy assets in coal, hydro and, indeed, gas; by making sure we adopt the default pricing mechanisms outlined in the ACCC report—a 25 per cent reduction in power prices as a result of that; and by adopting divestiture mechanisms so that we can actually— (Time expired)

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