Opposition leader Peter Dutton and liberal pre-selection candidate for Gilmore Andrew Constance at Hanlon Windows discuss the cost of living, the rising cost of living, and prospective offshore wind farms.
00:00Speaking to Chance before, just talking about the electricity costs here, as you can imagine in running a factory like this where they employ 80 staff, a very important business within the local community, their power bills just continue to go up and up.
00:14And now of course we've got the energy regulator telling us that under the government's renewables only policy there's a greater prospect of blackouts and brownouts.
00:22In relation to offshore wind, one thing that I've observed over the last couple of days is that nobody has actually talked about the price tag of this and the flow-on effect to people's power bills.
00:33Our region's experienced 18% increases in power when every resident was promised a $275 reduction by the Labor Party at the last election.
00:43And people are really doing it tough. We're talking about businesses who have to shut their doors, employees losing their jobs, and pensioners who are under blankets right now because they can't turn the heater on.
00:57A $10 billion project, 20km out to sea, with tens of thousands of tonnes of concrete and steel, and Chris Bowen's talking 2030, and I'm hearing from the Labor Party publicly that it's going to reduce power bills.
01:16The same group of people who promised a $275 reduction. It's very serious.
