Josh Frydenberg (Kooyong, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Hughes for his question. I know that he supports the government's efforts to reduce power prices and create a more reliable system. The National Energy Guarantee is a credible, workable, pro-market policy which will help lower prices and create a more reliable system. It involves no subsidies, no taxes and no trading schemes. Given that 371,500 jobs were created in the last 12 months, lower energy prices will continue to help this strong jobs growth continue.

I know that those opposite like to write books. Their front bench often looks like an Oprah Winfrey book club. We had from the member for Lilley—the second most famous old boy from Nambour high—The Good Fight. We had from the member for Fenner Battlers and Billionairesan odd title, given he is a bit underpaid. We had from the Leader of the Opposition For the Common Good, although a better title would probably have been 'If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.' We had a book from the member for Rankin which was the member for Grayndler's favourite book—in fact, his pick of the week—because it is titled Changing Jobs. Then we discovered that the member for Port Adelaide has a book. It's a pretty bland cover, but I said, 'Don't judge a book by its cover.' It is called Climate Wars. I read it and I thought, 'What does it say?' I started to agree with it. He says, 'The truth is that we in Labor have sent too many mixed signals about climate policy in the previous years.' He said, 'We have made mistakes in both the design of our policies and their presentation.' This was the best part: 'I was on a street corner in my electorate of Port Adelaide and a guy came up and said he wasn't sold on the climate issue. "I thought you were all piss-weak—

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