Senate debates
Thursday, 2 July 2026
Questions without Notice
Energy
2:44 pm
Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Industry and Innovation) | Hansard source
I was giving some thought to that as I got up, actually, Senator Watt. The idea that you would, as the minister for energy, conceal from Australians anticipated price rises in electricity that you had been provided and that you would make all sorts of administrative arrangements to cover that up until after an election—that dubious honour only belongs to one bloke. I can tell you he's not a comedian, this fella, Mr Taylor, from the other place, who was the minister for energy under the Morrison government. He did share that honour with Mr Morrison for a period. You asked you asked about concealing—
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