Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Birmingham, representing the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction. I commissioned a highly respected economist, Dr Alan Moran, to review government economic and energy data and to calculate the true cost of climate policies and so-called renewable energy. He delivered his report to me last week, and a copy has been sent to every member of federal parliament, including Senator Birmingham and the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction. Dr Moran's work cannot be sensibly refuted since he uses the government's own data, which used to be published in a consolidated form until the cost of intermittent solar and wind energy sources became so embarrassingly and devastatingly high. Is the minister aware that the true cost of climate policies on households through electricity prices is a staggering $1,300 per household per year?