Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change James Griffin has called on the NSW Labor Government to reconsider energy bill relief for households as energy price rises increase pressures on household budgets.
"From today energy prices in New South Wales will increase by around 20%, adding pressure to household budgets already feeling the squeeze under Federal Labor's cost of living crisis," Mr Griffin said.
"Half of all NSW households will receive no energy bill relief for seven years under this Labor Government, who dumped the Liberal and Nationals Government's $250 rebate."
"A re-elected Coalition government would have provided every household in NSW with $250 off their energy bills from today by simply looking for a better deal that. Instead, under this Labor Government around 1.5 million households get nothing."
"Labor have chosen union bosses over hard-working families, having to cut essential cost of living pressures to fund their $2.5 billion public sector wage increase. They should reconsider their priorities and provide energy bill relief for all NSW families and households."
"We're yet to see any detail from Chris Minns and his Government on their proposed government-owned energy bureaucracy, which by his own admission won't deliver households any savings for up to seven years."
"Labor's broken promises and wrong priorities mean families right across NSW are paying more."
"Only the Liberals and Nationals can be trusted to put families ahead of unions and deliver meaningful cost of living relief," Mr Griffin concluded.
