Senate debates

Wednesday, 2 August 2023

Questions without Notice

Energy

2:33 pm

Photo of Penny WongPenny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I've asked about what Ms Savage said, and I have a quote from her, from March of this year:

We have seen unprecedented volatility in our wholesale electricity markets over the last couple of years, we've had very high coal and gas prices as a result of the war in Ukraine and the recovery from the pandemic. We've also seen a number of outages in particularly old coal plants.

She's making the point that there are a number of reasons that electricity prices are being driven up. The reality is, all of the advice to government and the data from the market as well, so not only—

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