Sean Bell (NSW, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

The Albanese Labor government has failed the most basic test of economic management. Under Labor, inflation is up, interest rates are up, and families are paying the price. Australians are now experiencing the direct result of bad Labor government policy. Labor's reckless energy agenda has driven power prices higher and forced up cost of living across the economy. Where power prices rise, everything rises with them—food at the supermarket, freight logistics, construction, farming and manufacturing. Families feel it at the checkout and feel it again when the mortgage payment comes out. Small businesses feel it through higher overheads and weaker demand. That is how Labor's reckless energy agenda feeds inflation straight into household budgets.

Nowhere is this clearer than in New South Wales. Labor's net zero obsession is a disaster. Household power bills are through the roof. Labor forces industry to absorb skyrocketing power costs and then pretends to be shocked when businesses go under. I'm proud to say One Nation has the most comprehensive and practical plan to bring energy costs down, bring inflation under control and protect Australia from Labor's ongoing economic incompetence. This plan is on our website right now. I encourage people to go and have a look. We know that, if you want to defeat inflation and control interest rates, you have to start with energy. That means ending net zero mandates that force prices up, protecting reliable baseload, coalfired power and extending the existing coal generation across places like the Hunter.

Labor's ideological obsession with net zero is pushing power bills up. Families pay more and more, and small businesses get squeezed. One Nation will put Australians first by ending net zero, lowering energy costs and bringing inflation down.