Mr ALBANESE (Grayndler—Prime Minister) (14:01): Today, Clare Savage, the chair of the Australian Energy Regulator, said: It's much lower than where we were fearing it could have been last September, October. Opposition members interjecting— Mr ALBANESE : What would she know? A lot of what we have seen in the price increases today have been driven by unreliable coal plants, outages and very high fossil fuel prices so that transition to clean energy is critical to bringing down prices. What we are seeing is that the contracts that retailers buy for the coming financial year have fallen quite a bit since the intervention in the coal and gas markets in October last year. They are about 40 per cent lower than they were in October last year. That's what Clare Savage, the chair of the Australian Energy Regulator, said. Mr Dutton: What did you say? Mr ALBANESE: Mr Speaker, he promised to smile more if they made him leader, but I've seen no evidence! There it is! That cheeky little smile. Government members interjecting— The SPEAKER: Order, members on my right. Mr Hogan interjecting— The SPEAKER: And the member for Page— Mr Chester interjecting— The SPEAKER: and the member for Gippsland—will cease interjecting so that I can hear from the Leader of the Opposition on a point of order. Mr Dutton: Mr Speaker, on a point of order on relevance. This Prime Minister might treat the Australian public like a joke, but use your own words. You promised— The SPEAKER: Resume your seat. Just before the Prime Minister continues, the Leader of the Opposition knows he has a great deal of latitude. Points of order for the rest of today will be made in accordance with the standing orders, which will simply be to state the point of order, which is relevance, and no further commentary. I give the call to the Prime Minister. Mr ALBANESE: Thank you, Mr Speaker. He's angry because he knows that he voted against helping people. He voted against $3 billion in direct bill relief. He voted against the price caps on gas and coal that the Energy Regulator was speaking about today. He's angry because he opposed the Safeguard Mechanism—their own policy, supported by business and industry. He's angry because he was a part of a government that had 22 energy policies but didn't land one. He's angry because he left us with an energy grid that was built for the last century. He's angry because his government gave $4 million to the proponents of a coal-fired power plant in Collinsville, knowing there was no chance—no chance!—that it would actually go forward. Those opposite are frozen in time while the world warms around them. Those opposite have no way forward. We have had practical measures put forward in this parliament to deal with the challenges that have arisen, that are global challenges that have had a global impact. Those opposite left us with a policy that simply wasn't landed. We're going forward and making a difference.