Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

That was one instance. The other instance—and this is the end of it, Mr Deputy President—is in a Senate committee Hansard of 28 April. Mr St Baker, the Executive Chairman of ERM Power Pty Ltd, gave evidence to a Senate committee. He had given certain evidence and I said, to be clear:

You are saying that retail customers, with MRET and CPRS, will by 2020 be paying 150 to 200 per cent more than they are paying now—

for electricity. Mr St Baker said:

Yes, that is right.

I say no more except that Senator Wong, in accusing me of making up those figures, was clearly mistaken. I was simply relating evidence that had been given to a Senate committee.