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.
Described by Chris Bowen in November 2022 as “pivotal” to Australia becoming a “renewable energy superpower”, new data shows Labor’s attempts to create an offshore wind industry has met with cold hard reality, with taxpayers footing the bill to keep Labor’s pledge alive. According to returned Opposition Questions on Notice, the Department of Climate Change,…
Chris Bowen will deliver a keynote address at the National Press Club today. Here are seven questions he needs to answer. 1. When will Australians get their $275 power bill cut? It was promised 97 times before the 2022 Federal election, but has vanished without a trace. Last week’s inflation data showed little progress towards…
New Consumer Price Index (CPI) data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics is further evidence Australians will never receive Labor’s promised $275 power bill cut. According to the latest CPI data, released yesterday, electricity prices are up more than 22 per cent in a year. In Melbourne alone, electricity prices rose by 22.1 per cent…
Poles and wires projects being funded by the Albanese Labor Government’s $20 billion green fund are spewing emissions, while project costs are continuing to be kept hidden. New documents obtained by the Opposition under Freedom of Information laws from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) have revealed that five mega transmission projects funded by Labor’s…
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has been flooded with complaints about the Albanese Labor Government’s out-of-control Cheaper Home Batteries Program, with the regulator warning new consumer protections are required. According to the ACCC’s Inquiry into National Electricity Market report, consumer complaints have increased by 107 per cent when comparing quarter 1 2026 to quarter 1…
The Auditor-General has delivered a bombshell report into Snowy Hydro 2.0, savaging Labor’s mismanagement of the massive renewable energy project that has blown out by billions. The audit found that following the project “reset” in mid-2023, the renewable energy project is still “facing delays, cost increases and problems with delivery” with “management of the project”…
Dan Tehan, Federal Member for Wannon, will join a trip to Europe for high level discussions around energy and other policy areas from 15 – 19 June 2026. Mr Tehan will travel to London, Oslo and Munich over the five days and meet with companies, government and research bodies that are involved energy, research, exploration,…
Necessity, they say, is the mother of all invention. The gargantuan energy needs of AI has created a race for energy so fierce that America built a functioning nuclear microreactor in less than a year. Last week, America announced that the Antares Mark-0 microreactor achieved criticality at Idaho National Laboratory. This is the first advanced…
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…
