Thursday, 30 October 2025

 Lily D’AMBROSIO (Mill Park – Minister for Climate Action, Minister for Energy and Resources, Minister for the State Electricity Commission) (14:28): I am absolutely pleased to inform the house about how this government is helping Victorians like Mary and Joe – the Marys and Joes and the families that they support – as they go out to work or work from home, bring home their pay and deal with their bills. This Victorian government is helping them with the cost of living every single day. That is our number one focus every day. Our priority is helping those hardworking Victorians and their families to deal with the cost of living. How do we do that? In real, tangible ways that deliver results. It is not just talking about the problems but actually going to the heart of the problems and helping them every day to deal with the cost of living.

Our build in renewable energy, accelerated by the SEC, means we consistently have the lowest wholesale prices in the country. Let me just reflect on the matter. In the last calendar year the build of our renewables projects has delivered 42.4 per cent of renewable electricity. How does this translate to those hardworking Victorians, those Marys and Joes? Well, I will tell you. Eleven per cent of all of the electricity generated in Victoria was from the rooftops of every Mary and every Joe in Victoria, delivering on average $1000 of savings in their pockets every year to support those hardworking families.

We are doing it also by creating the jobs that the Marys and Joes and their families rely on every day. Those 67,000 jobs that we are creating by 2040 through the energy transition are about real jobs, real skills, real bill savings and real lower power prices for Victorians every single day. This is what you get when you have an Allan Labor government that is absolutely focused on Victorian families, rather than those that would simply close it all down to help cover their $10 billion black hole and kill off every single project that supports the Marys and Joes of Victoria.