Senator McALLISTER (New South Wales—Minister for Emergency Management and Minister for Cities) (14:00): Thank you for the question. I think Australians understand how very difficult things have been in recent times in terms of their cost of living. There have been a range of factors globally which have put enormous pressure into energy markets. When Labor came to government, we were faced with a very difficult situation indeed. It happens that the previous government knew about the pressures in the energy system, and what did they do? Did they take action to fix it? No, they didn't. Their decision was, in fact, to hide it, to actually make a regulation to defer the publication of the energy prices so that— The PRESIDENT: Minister McAllister, please resume your seat. Senator McGrath, on a point of order? Senator McGrath: On relevance, my question was very tightly written in terms of how much the average electricity bill has gone up since May 2022. The minister, sadly, is nowhere near that question. The PRESIDENT: I will remind the minister of your question. Minister McAllister. Senator McALLISTER: Energy prices are a serious issue. They are a serious issue for households and for businesses. The Albanese government's reliable renewables plan means that wholesale energy prices are now lower than when the coalition left office. What is required is a plan to help ease cost-of-living pressures, and we are doing that. In the last budget, we took a decision to provide every household with $300 off their energy bills, meanwhile the coalition has no plan, no plan at all, to bring electricity prices down now or in the future. Their plan for risky renewable— The PRESIDENT: Please resume your seat. Senator McGrath, on a point of order? Senator McGrath: I am reluctant to do this but the minister is nowhere near the question. I would ask you to perhaps ask the minister to come back to the question, please. The PRESIDENT: I have directed the minister to the question and I believe the minister has gone to your question. Senator McALLISTER: The senator asks about pricing and, of course, what I can inform the senator is that in the June quarter of 2022, the wholesale electricity price was $264 a megawatt hour. In the June quarter of 2024, the wholesale electricity price is $133 a megawatt hour. Our will plan to get reliable renewables into— (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator McGrath, a first supplementary?