Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The technique of the Leader of the Opposition is to tell one falsehood after another and then hope that, by repeating it, it will cut through. He has no regard for the truth whatsoever. He misled the House and was condemned for it today. He misled the Australian people by claiming that the Australian Energy Regulator's figures showed that, under the time of the coalition government, electricity prices for average Sydney households had gone up by $1,000. As has been amply demonstrated in the House today, that was completely untrue. There was no basis in fact. He took the names of two very important government agencies, the AER—the energy regulator—and the Energy Market Commission, and he said they showed that prices had gone up by $1,000 in the four years of the coalition government. He stood out at a door stop and he said—

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