Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment) | Hansard source

The reality is that we found and encountered prices that were absolutely escalating far too high far too quickly, hurting households and businesses across the country. The actions we've taken—whether it's generation reforms to encourage new generation to put stability into the grid in terms of both generation and prices, to reform transmission, to change market rules and to stop gouging we've seen in transmission or, in particular, the retail reforms that ensure Australians don't get pushed onto default contracts that are unfair and that take advantage of those who are most vulnerable—are benefitting Australians and will continue to provide price relief in terms of the type of increases experienced in the past not being repeated again in the future.