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

The honourable member is no doubt very familiar with an organisation called the Labor Environment Action Network, or LEAN. It's an interesting society. The member for Rankin is LEAN's Queensland patron, and the member for Watson is LEAN's New South Wales patron. I assume that the member for Port Adelaide is LEAN's South Australia patron. The Labor Environment Action Network said on 1 August 2018 that the truest thing said at the Clean Energy Council conference was that 'high prices are not a market failure; they're proof of the market working well'. Really? So, the member for Rankin and the member for Watson should take the member for Port Adelaide with them doorknocking, and when people complain about higher prices they should say, 'Don't you worry about that; this is proof that the market is working well.' I mean, really. That is what the Labor Party is all about.

We're determined to ensure that we deliver more-affordable and more-reliable power for Australians, and we are putting the policies in place to do that. The National Energy Guarantee is one of them, but it is not the only one. Right across the board you've seen support for this policy from one industry group or another, all of them recognising Australian—

Mr Frydenberg interjecting—

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