Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

I'm sure that the figures provided by the honourable member are correct, because they reflect the DMO, the default market offer, which was promulgated in May but hidden by the previous government and which outlined an energy price increase, on average for a Queensland small business, of $705 or 12.8 per cent That's what the previous government knew about and wilfully misled Queensland businesses—small, medium and large—about in a matter of fundamental, direct and deliberate dishonesty. I welcome the fact that honourable members opposite are now somehow interested in energy prices. They weren't very interested when they were changing the law to hide the increase in energy prices for Queensland businesses. Queensland businesses will benefit from our policies to introduce renewable energy and introduce to transmission—which now apparently the opposition is opposed to—the Integrated System Plan—

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