Mr KENNEDY (Cook) (16:46): Last weekend I conducted almost 30 listening posts in my electorate, speaking to members from all across my electorate. I had a pensioner who could not pay his energy bill. We introduced him to Wesley Mission, and Wesley Mission paid his bill so that this man could continue to cool and heat his house and continue to cook food. There are pensioners in my electorate forced to make choices no pensioner should have to make—between paying an electricity bill or feeding him and his wife or between paying their car, filling up their car, or seeing family and friends. It's not just the pensioners. I was recently at FJP Manufacturing. In just two years, their electricity prices have gone up over 70 per cent. Their gas prices are up over 50 per cent. Phill, who runs it there—great guy, works incredibly hard—is a huge supporter of manufacturing in Australia and a huge supporter of trades. He's watched the number of his tradies go from seven to three, and he's worried it's going to zero. He talks about their declining revenues and their increasing costs, and he worries they're going to close that manufacturing plant one day and instead just turn it into another set of apartments. What will we make in this country? I worry because energy prices are up 40 per cent in just three years. While emissions are down 28 per cent since 2005, energy prices have more than doubled, and it's not surprising. We have a government that is obsessed with emissions targets. They're legislating for 2030; they're setting 2035 and 2050 targets, but where is the price target? Ms France interjecting— Mr KENNEDY: I'll take the interjection. If you're obsessed with the cost of living, where is your energy price target? Ms France: Caps that you opposed. Mr KENNEDY: Why won't you legislate an energy price target? You're running for the hills. You made one mistake in 2022—promising $275 off people's bills. We all know how that has gone. The pensioner in my electorate, the manufacturer laying off tradies—they are living the reality of this failed energy policy. Instead, you love the emissions targets, but you won't set a price target. You're running for the hills as fast as you can from $275 off bills. I would love it if you were able to come back— The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Mr Georganas ): The member will resume his seat. The Chief Government Whip, the member for Lalor. Ms Ryan: I ask that the member be asked to direct his comments through the chair and stop directing them straight at people. The DEPUTY SPEAKER: I thank the government whip. Member for Cook, direct your comments through the chair. There were a couple of points where you were directing questions to the bench on my right. For everyone, just ensure that all comments are made through this chair. Mr KENNEDY: We heard the previous members talk about wholesale energy costs. I'm not sure whether they just don't understand or they're intentionally misleading the Australian public, but wholesale energy costs in New South Wales are less than half the bill. They're 40 per cent. But do you know what, Deputy Speaker? Australians don't pay 40 per cent. They don't just pay the wholesale costs. It's great to hear wholesale costs are going down, but Australians pay the full cost. They pay 100 per cent of their bill. Every time we hear the Minister for Climate Change and Energy talk about wholesale costs dropping, which he did three or four times today, it's less than 45 per cent of the total bill. What the pensioner pays in my electorate is 100 per cent of his bill. So I would ask the energy minister to start talking about total costs. Stop talking about the small part that's decreasing and actually talk about total cost, which we all know—which every person and every business in my electorate knows—continues to go up. It's time to either understand what a bill is made up of or stop misleading the Australian public. This week, we were plunged into darkness in Parliament House. I would ask that this energy minister stops plunging the Australian economy into darkness, killing Australian industry and running our manufacturers off this shore, and starts doing his job.