Q: A decision was made by you as energy minister. We’ve heard about it from Jim Chalmers tonight in 2022 before the last federal election, to delay a decision on electricity price rises past election day rises which were 11% and 12% so you effectively hid that power price rise from the Australian people.

Now you’re promising or releasing modeling claiming your gas reservation policy will cut power prices by a meager 3% and your only other power price solution is 15 years away in nuclear.

Why in 2022 did you hide that price rise from the Australian people? And given you did, why can we believe your policy promising this 3% reduction in power price?

Angus Taylor:

Well, I absolutely didn’t. And in fact, what we saw in my time as energy minister is a cut in electricity prices of between eight and 10% depending on whether you’re a small business, large business, or a household. We also saw big reductions in gas prices. Hear me out. They’ve got up to close to $20 and we got them down to closer to five to $7 over my final time in the role. And we saw as a result of that, we saw as a result of that, lower electricity prices and lower lower costs right across the economy. This is the key. If you can get gas prices down, it’s not just gas prices that come down for consumers, they clearly do, but also the price of food, the price of building materials. So much of our economy is energy. Energy is everywhere through our economy.

If we can get those costs down, and we can, by getting more Australian gas working for Australians, we can have a lower cost of living for all Australians,