Cost of Rockliff’s broken power promise laid bare as families take massive hit

Tasmanian Labor

The price of Premier Jeremy
Rockliff walking away from his key electricity policy has been laid bare with
Tasmanian families set to be hit with price increases of more than $200.

Mr Rockliff has abandoned
Tasmanian families, as well as small business, struggling under the weight of
his incompetent economic management.

With an unaffordable 12 per
cent increase to power bills announced this morning, families are now facing a
cost of living apocalypse.

Mr Rockliff was offered a
solution this week before he jetted off to Canberra when Labor tabled
legislation that would have set a price cap of 2.5 per cent price rises on
electricity bills for Tasmanian households and small businesses over the next
three years.

But Mr Rockliff and his
colleagues voted against dealing with the Bill, putting on full display their
disdain and lack of care for Tasmanian families struggling to make ends meet
and businesses facing mounting costs.

This was off the back of the
Rockliff-Ferguson Government walking away from its key energy policy to de-link
Tasmania from the National Electricity Market which the Economic Regulator has
said today has left Tasmanians exposed to huge price increases.

With power bills now beyond the average family’s reach, broken promises, soaring cost of living, real wage cuts and ballooning debt, it’s clear Mr Rockliff and his incompetent Treasurer Michael Ferguson are simply not up to the job on the economy.

Dean Winter MP

Shadow Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction

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