Energy and Emissions and Reduction
Energy is critical to Australia’s prosperity. Australia needs an energy plan that is focused on scientific endeavour, technology and innovation in all areas of energy production. My job will be to work with my colleagues to develop that plan. As the Shadow Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, I will hold the Labor Minister Chris Bowen to account. Labor promised a $275 reduction in household power bills by 2025. It is as clear as day that Minister Bowen has failed to deliver on that promise. Instead, the Australian Energy Regulator has confirmed Australian households are paying up to $1,300 more for their electricity than promised — a damming indictment on Minister Bowen. Labor has also undermined Australia’s domestic gas industry, which has seen household gas prices increase by 34% since Labor was elected. This is hurting households, manufacturers and small business and adding to the nation’s cost-of-living crisis.
Chris Bowen is in danger of being referred to the ACCC. Electricity prices have risen by $1,300 under his watch but now he is boasting about a one-off reduction on average of $77. The latest Default Market Offer (DMO) confirms Aussie households are yet to see Chris Bowen’s promised $275 cut to energy bills. Electricity…
Bureaucrats within Chris Bowen’s dedicated COP31 unit have been given the greenlight to spend almost half a million dollars of taxpayer money on overseas business class travel. According to documents obtained by the Opposition under Freedom of Information laws, scores of senior officials from within the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water…
During the inflation-fuelled cost of living crisis, the Albanese Labor Government has quietly established a sprawling new COP 31 bureaucracy, including a dedicated ‘Office of the Presidency.’ According to the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water’s Organisation Chart, a series of new units dedicated to advancing Chris Bowen’s agenda as President of…
The Coalition will more than double Australia’s minimum fuel reserves to 60 days and deliver at least 1 billion litres of new storage through an $800 million Australian Fuel Security Facility, building longterm resilience against future supply shocks in Wannon. Under the plan, the threshold amount of fuel held by industry in Australia’s fuel reserves…
The Seven News Spotlight documentary, ‘The Dirty Secret Powering Australia’s Green Future’, which premiered on Sunday 19 April 2026, has once again laid bare the contradictions between the promise of renewable energy and the stark realities of the transition. In this investigative report, Liam Bartlett and his team travelled to the Democratic Republic of the…
The Albanese Labor Government is failing to deliver affordable energy for Australians, according to alarming new data from the Australian Energy Regulator. In a damning report, the national energy watchdog has confirmed that median electricity market offers in all distribution regions were higher in the 2025-26 October-December quarter than in the equivalent 2024-25 quarter: As…
The Prime Minister has refused to release the latest data about the number of service stations without fuel. In Question Time today, the Prime Minister was asked twice to update the Australian people on exactly how many service stations across the country were without fuel or with only one type of fuel. On both occasions,…
The Albanese Government is desperately trying to play catchup to deal with the issues of fuel supply only a week after Chris Bowen claimed that Australia’s fuel supplies were secure. On 11 March Chris Bowen stated in Parliament that Australia’s fuel supply was secure, yet the next day on 12 March he was referring to…
The Minister for Climate Change and Energy, Chris Bowen, must reassure Australians that theGovernment has a strategy in place to ensure there are adequate fuel supplies for our nation. Reports that fuel wholesalers have commenced rationing petrol and diesel supplies across Australiaare deeply concerning. Under Labor, Australia risks going back to 1940 when rationing was…
Today’s CPI figures and the Greenhouse Gas Inventory figures show that the Albanese Government’s energy policies are simply not working and are costing all Australians. Once again Australian’s are facing increased energy bills as electricity costs rose 32.2% in the 12 months to January 2026 which is an increase from a 21.5% rise in the…
