Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment) Share this | Hansard source

Do you know the problem? They will not be honest with the Australian people. But we were, and we are. We said that electricity prices would drop, and they did. As a consequence of that, in the member for Gilmore's electorate what we have seen is a decrease in prices for her EnergyAustralia customers of 8.9 per cent, a decrease in prices for her Simply Energy customers of 10 per cent, a decrease in prices for her Simply Energy small business customers of nine per cent and a decrease in prices for any commercial and industrial customers of Origin Energy of 15½ per cent. It is very clear: on their latest modelling, when in government, the carbon tax on a floating basis was not going to be $25, it was going to be $38. So not only do we get all of the reductions put back onto the bills, but we also get an extra 50 per cent. We are for lower electricity prices and they are— (Time expired)

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