Shadow Ministry

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.

Bowen’s boffins slug taxpayers $3 million in overseas travel for failed COP bid

Climate bureaucrats spent more than $3 million on international travel to support Chris Bowen’s failed diplomatic blitz to secure hosting rights for COP31. According

Albanese and Bowen rolled over renewables-only data centre plan

STATEMENT How humiliating.  Anthony Albanese and Chris Bowen’s renewables-only energy plan for data centres has barely lasted a month. Queensland will rightly be able

New carbon tax modelling

STATEMENT Reports today regarding new Reputex modelling and Labor’s carbon tax, the Safeguard Mechanism, send a clear message to Chris Bowen: axe the tax.

“Delivery uncertainty remains”: AEMO report rings net zero alarm bell

A new report into Australia’s long-term energy reliability has delivered a scathing assessment of Chris Bowen’s renewables-only rollout. According to the Australian Energy Market

Bowen’s conflict of interest blind spot

The Smart Energy Council has been handed multiple contracts to oversee the Government’s $8.5 billion Cheaper Home Batteries Program, despite the Council being a

Labor blocks release of pre-COP attendance list

I am disappointed that the Albanese Labor Government has this afternoon done a dirty deal with the Greens in the Senate to block the

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