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Joyce v Plibersek

Can there be a greater punishment than being the Labor MP chosen to debate" Barnaby Joyce on commercial TV each week?

Well this Treasury analysis shows that price rises will be moderated, they won't go up as much as was initially predicted and that's because our policies are working, and it's a shame that Barnaby and his side actually voted against the policies that have brought down energy prices in Australia, on top of not doing anything when they were in government to prepare for these energy price rises.

But we know that families are still doing is tough and that's why we're also delivering cheaper medicine, cheaper childcare, free Tafe and higher wages.

Well, you just heard it there. It's the great swindle. Remember they said they were going to bring down the price of electricity by $275. Now they're lauding the fact that it's still going up and it will continue to go up, and at some time in the future, listen to this, it won't go up as much as they expected it to. Now if you think that is worth banking, good luck.

As everything, you will see Liddell get blown up* and this will be under the Labor party's watch, another power station literally blown up, another restriction on power supplies as we reduce supply and increase price. And I don't see anything marvellous happening in the future except a Labor party which thinks that the way to fix power prices is to cap the two evils. Remember they don't believe in coal or gas, but they do believe in capping it because they do understand all of a sudden that it is absolutely connected to power prices.