In more evidence the Coalition have not moved on from the last election (or the last three years) the next question from Dan Tehan is….

Do you still stand by your governments commitment to cut power bills by $275 by the end of the year?

Chris Bowen:

The honourable member refers to model done in 2021.

Which we gave to the Australian people in 2022 and then the Australian people did have a chance to have their say in 2025 on the matter.

And we accept that judgement of the Australian people, we accepted modestly the Australian peoples judgement on 3 May and perhaps the people looked at the fact that energy prices have fallen as I just said by 6.2% in the year just gone and they would know that that was not inevitable, they would have been 16.6% higher if the honourable member had his way in energy bill relief not being applied, that was the key difference.

They also know the Opposition went to the election with a very significant plan, we have always recognised it as significant on energy, the people passed judgement on that and knew that the plan would lead to higher energy bills.

There is a point of order that is kinda a point of order. Bowen is told to stick to the topic.

Bowen:

I was asked if we can stand by things and we stand by a policy to reduce energy prices by introducing cheapest form of energies which is renewable and rejecting plans to introduce the most expensive form of energy. We stand by the election commitment we made on the election just gone to deliver cheaper home batteries to people and that is our policy which is being delivered and taken up by the people with great enthusiasm and the people rejected those and gave the Government amended to keep going.