Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I'm asked about comments of the former Prime Minister in relation to the National Energy Guarantee. The Leader of the Opposition may not be aware, but the former Prime Minister has just tweeted:

I have not endorsed "Labor's energy policy". They have … not demonstrated that their 45% emissions reduction target will not push up prices.

That's what the former Prime Minister said, and he is absolutely right. Labor have not and cannot demonstrate that their reckless 45 per cent, 'economy-wrecking'—as the Business Council have said—emissions reduction target of 45 per cent will not increase power prices, because, of course, it will increase power prices. Our target of 26 per cent has been clear for years. It is unchanged. The whole purpose of the design of the original National Energy Guarantee—

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