Jacqui Lambie (Tasmania, Jacqui Lambie Network) Share this | Hansard source

I think what's incredible today is that we're in a cost-of-living crisis and you promised us at the last election that our power prices would go down, and you have failed to do that. You have failed to do that. As a matter of fact, the best thing you could do is send out $75 relief to us each quarter to try and keep us believing that is going to happen. You failed to fulfil that promise, and that's where we are.

We have a cost-of-living crisis, and right now we need everything on the table. We need this to go to a Senate inquiry, and that's what the people of Australia expect. Any other time you want something to go, it goes to a Senate inquiry; whenever the Greens want something, it goes to a Senate inquiry—but not when it's not in your best interest.

We can come and remind you every day of the week that, between the Greens and the government of the day, you have failed to do what you promised the Australian people at the last election. You have not reduced our power prices, and that's all that matters today. Between the Greens and the government, the Labor Party failed to reduce what they promised to at the last election. They failed to reduce your electricity bills. That is what's happened today, and that's all that matters. We are in a cost-of-living crisis, and today in here they're still trying to tell me there's nothing wrong and our power prices aren't going up. That's where we're at. So, instead of gaffer-taping us every time it's not working for you guys and making you look good, these things need to go to an inquiry. We've waited three years for you to reduce our prices. You have failed. So what's another four or five weeks so we can do this properly? What is wrong with that?