Labor has introduced a Bill to
ensure Tasmanian families and businesses will not experience electricity price
shocks after the chaos in the national energy market – doing the job the
Rockliff-Ferguson Government and missing-in-action Energy Minister Guy Barnett
have failed to do.
Labor’s Bill would cap power
prices at 2.5 per cent following the government abandoning their policy to
reduce energy prices during a cost of living crisis in favour of building
Marinus.
This is a government that
doesn’t care about the cost of living.
In 2018, they promised to
undertake an exit from the National Electricity Market to reduce prices but
they have now admitted to dumping that policy.
The government’s performance
on energy has been an abject failure – so serious that just yesterday the
Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) had to issue a warnings about maximum
power load interruptions across Tasmania.
There is chaos in the national
electricity market and Tasmania is exposed to that failure because Mr Barnett
is a Minister with a plan to make more plans but no plans to actually do
anything to address cost of living pressures.
If Premier Rockliff, Treasurer Ferguson and particularly Minister Barnett aren’t going to do their job to protect Tasmanians from massive bill shock, Labor will do it for them.
Dean Winter MP
Shadow Energy Minister
