Senate debates

Wednesday, 5 November 2025

Questions without Notice

Energy

2:57 pm

Photo of Tim AyresTim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

Well, I only have a minute, but the key risk is a return to the investment drought, the disinvestment and the structurally higher prices that are a consequence of the delinquent decade that those opposite were in government. Senator Canavan said in 2019 that electricity prices for manufacturing businesses in Australia had gone up 91 per cent in the last decade. What did he and the Morrison government do about it? In 2020, they gave goodness knows who $3.3 million—

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