Southern Metropolitan Region
David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (13:07): (1726) My matter is for the attention of the Minister for Energy and Resources, and it concerns a series of individuals in my electorate who have come to me with new bill increases on their electricity and gas bills. Many of these relate to an increase that occurred on 1 August – just gone – and that bill increase seems to range between 7 and 15 per cent on the supply charge and similar amounts for all of the bands of electricity or all of the bands of gas. There are significant increases that are coming forward in my electorate through the notification from the various electricity groups. It is not my business to single out one electricity group, because what we are seeing is general, but the point here is that the minister for energy promised electricity prices would go down, down – that is what she said – but actually they are going up, up, and she needs to act and explain to the community why their bills are going up, up.