House debates
Wednesday, 8 February 2017
Questions without Notice
Pensions and Benefits
2:21 pm
Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source
The question we ask is: when are you going to come up with a policy to make power cheaper, or don't you have one?
Tibor Majlath
Posted on 10 Feb 2017 12:00 pm
Speaking of cheaper power. The Coalition plans to generate cheaper electricity by using coal and gas fired power stations while they 'transition to a cleaner economy.
Yet the Coalition has no policy in keeping gas prices down. There is no policy to maintain domestic gas reserves because they have opened up the market to the Asian gas markets. This is tipped to massively raise domestic gas prices.
No wonder coal will be our only option for 'cheaper' power. What a surprise.