Senate debates
Monday, 24 November 2025
Questions without Notice
Energy
2:42 pm
Matthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party) Share this | Hansard source
The minister has not answered the question of when power bills will come down. Minister, in the survey one retail energy sector CEO noted:
… the cost of this transition is really going to affect the people who can afford it the least, so the people that are already struggling to pay their power bills are going to get slammed with more cost …
Another retail CEO said:
So bottom line is, we're going to make a large segment of the population more vulnerable again with electricity.
Minister, why are you promising net zero when it's hurting the poorest and most vulnerable in our society the most?
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