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

It was a pretty cunning plan—a very cunning plan by the member for Hume to deal with higher energy prices by keeping them secret. We, on the other hand, have been working to put in place coal and gas price caps to see prices come down, which the member for Barker and all his mates opposed and voted against, along with the energy bill relief that was in the Treasurer's budget for families and small businesses. So they actually voted for higher prices. They actually came into the parliament and argued for policies which would have stopped the 8.2 per cent reduction in energy bills for South Australian small businesses. I imagine that we're going to have quite a debate about energy bills between now and the next election, because government policy is very important when it comes to energy bills.

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