Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Prime Minister, before the election, you looked the Australian public in the eye and promised on 97 occasions that you would reduce their power bills by $275. Yesterday, the Minister for Climate Change and Energy said, 'The statement of $275 by 2025—we stand by our commitment.' Can the Prime Minister confirm that the Labor Party has now recommitted, without qualification, to a $275 power bill price cut?

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

I thank the Leader of the Opposition for his question. I've said absolutely consistently from this dispatch box—I think, on every single day that I've stood here—that we stand by the modelling that we did, the RepuTex modelling. And what the modelling showed was that with our plan, which includes Rewiring the Nation, making sure that you make the grid 21st-century ready, if you actually enable renewables to fit into the energy grid through the integrated systems plan that's been developed by the Australian Energy Market Operator then what you will do is promote investment in renewables, which are the cheapest form of energy. Our modelling showed very clearly what the impact of that would be on households, but the modelling also showed what it would do for businesses as well.

This is not a complex question. That is why the Business Council of Australia, the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Australian Industry Group, the National Farmers Federation, the Clean Energy Council, the Australian Conservation Foundation, Greenpeace and the Investors Group—all of these groups, all of these disparate groups—when it comes to energy, have all been united in supporting the position that we took to the election. The reason why business supports our plan is that it will result in lower prices, because if you have a shift in the energy mix towards cheaper energy, as opposed to more expensive energy, then you lower energy prices.

What those opposite want to do, after 22 failed plans, is to go towards nuclear energy. That's what they want to do. And they can say, if you like, where the plants are going to be. I look forward to their review—

Ted O'Brien (Fairfax, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Why don't you say 275?

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Fairfax will cease interjecting.

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

letting us know where the nuclear power plants are going to be, because we know that they've got to be in urban areas and we know that they've got to be near water.