Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I ask a further supplementary question. Can the minister explain why the government rejected advice by CRA International, ACIL Tasman and ROAM Consulting regarding electricity prices falling and instead just went with the McLennan Magasanik Associates advice when those consultancy firms all concluded that electricity pool prices would be reduced by a five per cent margin if those low-cost, short-run marginal cost renewables came into the generation mix? Why did the government not look at those other reports and instead just accept the view that the old polluters had to be sandbagged under this legislation?