Hollie Hughes (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

Senator McGrath, I mean, I know we love a Cheerio and a little cubed cheese, but one has to draw the line somewhere. To hear Senator Green come here and talk about the plans they had and all those wonderful things they were going to deliver through energy. They were going to deliver, if you noticed—anyone playing along at home—hundreds of dollars of savings off the bill. I thought I would remind Senator Green it was $297. That was how much those opposite were going to take off everybody's power bills. Unfortunately, it hasn't quite happened that way. In fact, if you talk to any Australian out there—and we actually do on this side speak to real Australians, particularly Australians who run small businesses who employ people—there isn't a person whose power bill has not gone up. Businesses and Australian households are facing power bills with increases of significantly more than $297 a year, so at no point will we ever see those bills come down.

Thank you, Senator McDonald, for your motion this evening, but we are here to look at the AEMO report, which is interesting. But what is more interesting is when you line it up next to the GenCost report that this government now relies on so heavily. We have Minister Bowen—'blackout Bowen' as he should potentially be known—in the other place whose nickname I heard on 2GB the other day was 'Casanova'. I had a think about it and it is because of everything he touches—