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

Not only did we have that catastrophic outcome—a human outcome, an electricity outcome and an outcome for families—but now you would think that in Victoria they would have learnt the lessons. But instead Victorian Labor deliberately drove 1,600 megawatts of electricity base load out of the system, and right now Victorian hospitals are paying the price.

The member for Bendigo likes to chat from time to time. This is from an article from the Bendigo Advertiser of 25 August, headed 'Central Victorian hospitals balking at rising power costs':

Castlemaine Health has raised its concerns about the rising cost of energy with the state government, which has been criticised … for failing to account for soaring power prices.

What we are seeing is that Victoria's hospitals are now facing the same risk as South Australia's hospitals—all of that at a time when the Leader of the Opposition, at the federal level, is proposing to double down and introduce a massive new electricity price hike. So they want to increase prices. We've taken steps to reduce them. The Prime Minister has a national energy plan to reduce pressure on gas, reduce pressure on retail and ensure that we have storage through Snowy 2.0. We want to keep the lights on; they are risking our hospitals. (Time expired)

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