Burwood electorate
Mr FOWLES (Burwood) (11:37): (1828) My question is directed to the Minister for Energy, Environment and Climate Change. Minister, just prior to Christmas I found out that United Energy had scheduled a planned outage—a planned outage—for an area of my electorate on Christmas Eve. Needless to say, that outage was absurd—absolutely absurd. After representations made by me to United Energy, happily that decision was reversed, but it was an absolute nonsense that United Energy thought that they could ask residents in my electorate to turn off their fridges on Christmas Eve. My question to the minister is: what mechanisms are available to us to minimise the impact of planned disruptions and to improve the communications of these privatised power companies?