Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) | Hansard source

That's simply not true. It's simply not true, and the example you give in relation to the ACT, which went to 100 per cent renewable energy years ago, when I was still in the assembly, actually saw their bills go down this year because they are using a renewable energy mix which is often cheaper than other sources of energy. So it's simply not true, and we have been 100 per cent focused on meeting cost-of-living pressures or supporting households to deal with cost-of-living pressures, including in the area of energy, where we inherited, frankly, a total and utter mess when we came to government. We have been methodically working through it—which has included the legislation that the Senate passed, without your help, at the end of last year, which put downward pressure on those energy bills—and supporting households. Five million households have had support on their winter bills, which you also opposed.