The latest hike in Australians’ electricity bills demonstrates Labor is solely committed to raising energy costs and has no intention of ever reducing them.

One Nation leader Senator Pauline Hanson said Anthony Albanese did not deserve a single vote at the election if he did not abandon the policies directly responsible for rising energy prices.

“When we return to Parliament later this month, the Prime Minister could immediately change the National Electricity Market (NEM) rules to guarantee minimum baseload
generation from cheaper coal and gas sources, instead of the wind and solar sources which are driving up costs around the country,” Senator Hanson said.

“This is One Nation’s policy, and it will reduce energy costs paid by Australian households and businesses by at least 20%. This is the first step on the path to cheaper power. It
requires no new infrastructure costs, which is the Australian Energy Regulator’s excuse for this latest hike.

“The policy of Labor, the Coalition and the Greens is to spend up to $1.5 trillion ($1500 billion) of taxpayers’ money to make our electricity more expensive than it has to be. There’s no benefit to Australian energy consumers in their policy, just more pain and misery with no end in sight.

“It doesn’t have to be this way. It wouldn’t be this way if only Labor, the Coalition and the Greens put the interests of Australians first like they’re supposed to do. They don’t. They make no effort to address the cause of high energy costs crippling our households, closing down our businesses and destroying what’s left of our industries. They persist with their obsession with net zero despite the direct evidence of the harm it is causing and the direct evidence Australian efforts have no impact on rising global emissions.

“One Nation’s policy will abolish the Department of Climate Change and related programs and agencies, saving taxpayers $30 billion a year, and withdraw Australia from the Paris Agreement. One Nation’s policy puts Australia’s interests first and will not permit our standard of living and our economy to be sacrificed on the altar of the climate change cult.”

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