Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Canavan, for the question. Of course, you were part of that coalition government that refused to disclose to the Australian people that you had increased the price of electricity in the weeks before the last federal election. So please don't come into this place lecturing us about power prices.

Now, what have we done? What have we done about it? Well, we did two things in particular. We did two things in particular to put downward pressure on electricity prices because we saw the neglect by your government over almost a decade in dealing with this issue. What did we do as soon as we came into office? One of the very first things—