Senator WONG (South Australia—Minister for Finance and Deregulation) (14:32): Those of us who are very aware of high electricity prices support things such as increases to family tax benefits, increases to pensions and tax breaks for people earning under $80,000 a year. That is what this side of politics supports. What that side of politics supports is a policy that would add to cost-of-living pressures by increasing the tax that Australian households would have to pay by $1,300 a year. What I was trying to describe before is this simple proposition that, if you have investment uncertainty, that can lead, on the basis of what the industry itself says, to higher prices. I would remind senators of this quote: … it— referring to the uncertainty— will also impact on their ability to offer fixed price electricity contracts which could put up prices for households. That is a reference to your policy's effect on uncertainty and investment uncertainty, which manifests as— (Time expired)