Sorry, just needed a little break to rock under my desk for a little bit.

Sussan Ley to Chris Bowen with a nice little gotcha:

But this is Bowen, who is the closest the parliament has to someone using Jedi mind powers on the daily.

‘This is not the question you are asking for’.

Bowen says:

In New South Wales the average price of these $127 it was $123. The Queensland one is 139 dollars and the average election day was $347 and 28 cents. In South Australia the average today is $125 and the average on election day was $312.30.

SO that is wholesale, obvs, and not household and Ley gets up to be like “ARE YOU HEARING THIS?’ and Milton Dick is like, ‘yes, but it’s not that deep’.

Bowen continues:

In Victoria the average household wholesale price is $126 – $183 and on election day ws $233.

…Perhaps I could say, Mr Speaker, we on the side of the house agree that Australians have looked and will continue to look to the government to do more to assist on household energy bills. The work is far from done, we delivered three rounds of energy bill relief but we recognise that around the world, including in Australia, our prices hit higher than anyone would like.

But is why we have taken such action. That is why for example I announced a very significant change to the default market offer, review to effectively change the way that the default market offer works to put Australian household at the centre to prioritise Australian households, to stop speaking price hikes by retailers so they could only be one place right here to prevent customers from because more than standard offer price at their initial low-cost offer changes.

That is what – the sort of thing we did last term and will continue to do this term. It is true the Australian people knew what we took to the 2022 election and they knew what we did in the last term and the challenges we face with global headlines, they knew that they cost judgement on May 3.

The Leader of the Opposition said at the last election and I quote, I am very happy for the election to be a referendum on energy, nuclear power prices, on who has a sustainable pathway for our country going forward, that is what the band Leader of the Opposition called for.

It got paid across the country including several occasions in my own electorate, I campaigned in his electorate to be fair and I was satisfied with the result of both. I was satisfied with the resultant both because the people had a choice, in fact, we expect that result, we accept it with humility and I encourage those opposite to do the same.