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

I'm tempted to spend a bit of time on tenuous links, but the point here, as Senator Canavan pointed out, is that at the end of the miserable period of the Morrison, Abbott and Turnbull governments, which did so much damage to Australia's electricity system, electricity prices had risen by 91 per cent. Because of that disinvestment that occurred, four gigawatts out and only one gigawatt back in—Snowy 2.0 started at $2 billion and is now $12 billion because of their mismanagement—electricity prices for ordinary Australians are higher than we would like. That's true. There is a consequence. Your self-indulgence, your incapacity, means that real Australians pay. You wrecked the electricity system. We are building a new electricity system. You wrecked it, and ordinary Australians pay. (Time expired)