Craig Kelly (Hughes, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I am very pleased to lead the discussion on this MPI on behalf of the coalition. Anyone thinking of investing in Australia or in South Australia would be particularly disturbed by the speech that they just heard from the member for Port Adelaide. Nowhere in the 10 minutes he spoke for did he address the problems of cost and reliability of energy. In his own state over the last few years, there has been a doubling of the households that have had their electricity cut off. The South Australian Council of Social Service's Executive Director, Ross Womersley, said about the increasing disconnections in South Australia:

We have the highest electricity prices in the nation in South Australia. We have the highest unemployment in South Australia …

They also have the highest renewable energy target and—surprise, surprise—they have the highest number of households that have had their electricity disconnected.

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