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

I was asked about power. We know from the member for Mitchell, who's had some good comments about his mate the member for Cook, that they were addicted to power, but they weren't very good at energy. They weren't very good at energy policy. That's the problem for those opposite: all about power policy; nothing about energy policy. The truth is that the cheapest form of new energy is clean energy, renewable energy, which is why our policy will put downward pressure on energy prices.

When it comes to mortgages, and I know this is a really difficult concept, if you have the policy that we have, that the WA government has—and I notice Minister Cook in the gallery today. Perhaps Minister Cook could provide a workshop while he's here in Parliament House about how successful the WA program has been in providing a shared equity system for people to get into housing in Western Australia. Our Help to Buy scheme will do just that as well, because the nature of a Help to Buy scheme is that, rather than the person who has the borrowing—it's a shared scheme. (Time expired)

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