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

I'm trying to take a statesmanlike tone over here, but it's rather hard when you hear questions like that—questions from an opposition about gas prices and how much they are going up, when, on the day the member for Hume became the minister for energy, gas was $9.40 a gigajoule and at the time of the election it was $34.75—a 270 per cent increase. That's pretty good! Some would say that's fantastic. Maybe the gas companies would say that's fantastic, but Australian consumers would not. The honourable member refers to work the government is doing to make sure gas and energy price rises do not flow through to industries and Australian businesses. I thank him for bringing that to the attention of the House, and that work will continue.

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