Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

As I said in my answer to the primary question, I've not reviewed Dr Moran's report and I'm not aware that Minister Taylor or his department have done so either. As a government our focus continues to be on getting energy prices down whilst meeting our emission reduction obligations and ensuring reliability in the energy markets. We are recording achievements across all of those three spheres in terms of meeting the emission reduction obligations and commitments that we've made as a country; improving and delivering more reliability in the energy grid, despite some of the challenges there have been previously; and, as I was outlining before, getting prices down at a wholesale level and at a retail level for households and businesses. The ABS tells us that we've seen reductions in the national average retail price over the last year. That benefits both households and businesses. The AER showed in a recent report that high standing offers have been eliminated. These tangible differences are flowing through in electricity bills for Australians. (Time expired)