Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Evans. I refer the minister to the same speech as Senator Milne referred him to—the one to the Energy Policy Institute of Australia given by the Prime Minister last week—and I ask the minister: when did the Prime Minister first become aware of the mounting pressures being faced by so many Australian households and businesses as a result of increasing electricity prices?