Shadow treasurer Jim Chalmers has accused a senior minister of adding “fuel to the bin fire of lies” about power bills and renewable energy.
Mr Chalmers hit back on Tuesday after Energy Minister Angus Taylor criticised Labor’s promised $78bn transformation of the electricity grid.
“Angus Taylor has been forced into another absolutely humiliating admission today that the numbers he cooked up and put in the papers are complete and utter rubbish,” Mr Chalmers told reporters in Brisbane.
“These are numbers from a minister you can‘t take seriously, in a government you can’t take seriously on climate change.”
Mr Chalmers spoke to journalists after visiting Brisbane electric vehicle charging manufacturer Tritium with Anthony Albanese on Tuesday morning.
The Opposition Leader used a press conference to announce more details of Labor‘s “Powering Australia” plan to overhaul the nation’s electricity sector, which he said would create 604,000 jobs, drive down household bills and reduce emissions by 43 per cent by 2030.
Mr Albanese claimed media reporting of government modelling that indicated his plan would increase electricity prices was a “scare campaign” based on “a view that somxjmtzywehow renewables aren‘t the cheapest form of new energy”.
