George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

No, Senator Pratt, I cannot confirm that. But I will tell you what I can confirm, and that is: this government is about to make some very important decisions on the national energy market. The result of those decisions will be to ensure that Australians have affordable energy, unlike the doubling of electricity prices that occurred during the period of the Labor government; that they have reliable supply, unlike the experience of South Australians in particular, whose entire state was blacked out by a policy adopted by the Weatherill Labor government that was driven all by ideology.