Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

And I will go directly to the campaign and what happened, because this is what happened, and this is what we didn't know was what happening while the campaign was on. But they knew. They knew about the price increase in March. What we know is that one of the previous government's final acts was to hide that energy prices would be going up in July. They were advised in March that the default market offer price—for a household in New South Wales it increased by up to 19.7 per cent, and in Queensland it was by up to 12.8 per cent. They knew about it in March, but days before the election was called, they made a conscious decision to keep the information from Australians until after the election. And who might that have been? Who might that have been? That was the member for Hume, because the member for Hume was the actual minister at the time.

What we will do is deliver an energy policy. It'll be the first one we've had in this country for a decade. They had 22 announcements and didn't deliver one.

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