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

As loath as I am to make a partisan point at question time—I normally try and rise above such matters, as honourable members know—the honourable member opposite leaves me no choice. The honourable member talks about budgets and energy price rises, and I feel obliged to remind the honourable member of the evidence of the Treasury secretary before Senate estimates this week. He said:

The increase in prices this financial year reflects increases in the default market offers published in May by the Australian Energy Regulator (AER) and associated market dynamics.

It says 'those published in May'—in late May, as it happens. They were meant to be published in early May, but there was an intervention by the member for Hume.

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