Dan Tehan gets a question! What a special treat for all of us.

My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. Electricity prices are now up 32% since Labor came to office. Some households are paying more than $1300 for the electricity. Do you still stand by the Prime Minister’s commitment to the Australian people of a $275 cut to power bills by the end of this year? Or is the Prime Minister saying things he knows are not true?

So that’s the new line – which is also the old line – trying to paint Albanese and senior government ministers as ‘saying things they know not to be true’. Which is something the Coalition tried out in the last term and well, it didn’t go particularly well. But maybe the next three years are the charm!

Chris Bowen

I thank the honourable member for the question and a little surprised he didn’t reference today’s CPI figures but perhaps I should because it shows energy prices are down 6.2%.

Perhaps that is an explanation or another explanation is that is in no small part due to the Government ‘s energy bill relief which the member opposed, that’s another possible explanation although he referenced $1300 which is roughly the amount you can save by installing a cheaper home battery under our policy.

I thank the honourable member for the plug.