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

Australians would be worse off if a government sought to impose the most expensive energy there is on them and made them pick up the tab. Let's be clear: that question is being asked by a member of Peter Dutton's front bench—a party that is going to serve up the most expensive form of energy there is and ask Australians to pay for it. That is who that question is coming from. It is true that energy prices—electricity prices—are really tough for so many Australians. That is why it is incomprehensible to Australians why those opposite would have opposed so much of the electricity price relief that this government sought to put in place. People, remember that that question is being asked by somebody who wants Australians to pay higher prices. (Time expired)