Senate debates

Monday, 3 November 2025

Questions without Notice

Energy

2:07 pm

Photo of Bridget McKenzieBridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

On David Speers's ABC podcast this week, former Treasury secretary Ken Henry said: 'If you have to provide a permanent or semipermanent rebate for something, then you're saying that your policy settings are wrong—your energy policy settings are wrong'. Given the government's only answer to soaring energy prices is an unsustainable rebate, do you agree with Mr Henry that the government's energy policy settings are wrong?

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