Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

It was remarkable to hear Mr Shorten and others seek to mount claims that power prices have gone up by $1,000 recently. These are claims that they have sought to peddle, despite the fact that both the Australian Energy Regulator and the Australian Energy Market Commission have clearly said that those figures are incorrect. The Labor Party is out there simply peddling falsehoods to try to play politics with the serious issue of energy supply and energy affordability. It doesn't matter which way you take Labor's claim, it's false.

The coalition clearly inherited a mess when we came to office. Electricity bills had increased by more than 100 per cent over previous years when we came to office. But our steps to repeal the carbon tax saw the largest fall in electricity bills. We saw, as the ACCC has confirmed, a $550 benefit to households than would otherwise have been the case, and we will keep— (Time expired)