Labor drowns in energy lies

Thursday 19 June 2025

Labor’s Powering Australia Plan claimed that it would cut NEM wholesale power rates by $11 per MWh (from $62 to $51) by 2025.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese praised RepuTex Energy’s analysis as “the most comprehensive modelling ever done for any policy by any opposition in Australia’s history since Federation”.

Albanese also regularly claimed that Labor would reduce electricity rates by $275 by 2025 (i.e, now):

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.