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

I thank the Leader of the Opposition for the question. Indeed, in Longman and in electorates right around Australia, people are struggling with high power bills, and they're higher because of the failure of those opposite, over 10 long years, to implement a policy. We stand by our plan to put more renewables in the system, which will drive down power prices. And we note that those opposite voted against lower power prices today. They voted against it again and again and again and again and again. They voted against it consistently, because one of their final acts in government was actually to hide the power price increases that were coming in on 1 July. They didn't just hide it by not telling people. They hid it by changing, through a regulation, going to the Governor-General in that the dying days of a dying government—in the dying days of a dying government they went to the GG and changed the rules so that Australians would not know, when they voted on 21 May, that there were already baked-in increases in power prices coming in on 1 July.

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