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

I assume from the second part of the minister’s answer that she was arguing that there would be an increase in wholesale electricity prices due to the expanded RET, so I ask a supplementary question. Since three out of the four consultancy reports that have analysed the impact of the RET on electricity prices all disagree with the government’s assumption that there would be an increase in price, and studies by CRA International, ACIL Tasman and ROAM Consulting all conclude that electricity prices will fall, what is the government’s basis for rejecting the conclusions of those modellers in favour of the special pleading from the big polluters?