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State Electricity Commission dominates Labor’s bid for re-election in Victoria
Victoria’s premier, Daniel Andrews, has done the rounds on breakfast TV this morning off the back of Labor’s campaign launch yesterday.
The new SEC – government-owned, not private for-profit, but government-owned electricity, so owned by every single Victorian – creates nearly 60,000 jobs – 6,000 of those will be apprentices. It will be 100% renewable electricity. These companies can’t be relied upon to replace themselves. They’ll just put another profit machine in place. We need to make sure that we’re looking after pensioners, we’re looking after families and, indeed, businesses. And without electricity, there is no economy, so we have to replace them. And we choose to replace them with a public option – a government-owned option. An option that’s owned by every single Victorian.
We’ll do another one of those next year – another $250 for every single Victorian household, and access to a trusted comparison site. Because the thing is, these big businesses rely on you not being on the best deal. They profit off that. They bank on you not being on the best deal. They don’t ring you up and say, “By the way, you’re paying too much for your energy.” That power-saving bonus is really important. We’ve done it. 1.6 million households have accessed that. And now, we’re gonna dobanother one in 2023. So that’s immediate action, as well as a medium- and long-term plan to take the profit out of your power bill. To bring back the SEC and to make sure we’ve got the jobs, the renewables, the lower emissions and lower bills that Victorians want.
It’s disappointing that printing delays, combined with the wet weather has impacted our ability to open every early voting centre on time. However, the 21 early voting centres affected are supplementary early voting centres we added to our standard complement this year. Importantly, there will still be at least one early voting centre in every district throughout the State opening as normal at 9am.
Continue reading…If PM meets Xi Jinping it will be the first formal meeting between leaders of Australia and China in six years. Follow the day’s news liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast State Electricity Commission dominates Labor’s bid for re-election in VictoriaVictoria’s premier, Daniel Andrews, has done the rounds on breakfast TV this morning off the back of Labor’s campaign launch yesterday. The new SEC – government-owned, not private for-profit, but government-owned electricity, so owned by every single Victorian – creates nearly 60,000 jobs – 6,000 of those will be apprentices. It will be 100% renewable electricity. These companies can’t be relied upon to replace themselves. They’ll just put another profit machine in place. We need to make sure that we’re looking after pensioners, we’re looking after families and, indeed, businesses. And without electricity, there is no economy, so we have to replace them. And we choose to replace them with a public option – a government-owned option. An option that’s owned by every single Victorian.We’ll do another one of those next year – another $250 for every single Victorian household, and access to a trusted comparison site. Because the thing is, these big businesses rely on you not being on the best deal. They profit off that. They bank on you not being on the best deal. They don’t ring you up and say, “By the way, you’re paying too much for your energy.” That power-saving bonus is really important. We’ve done it. 1.6 million households have accessed that. And now, we’re gonna dobanother one in 2023. So that’s immediate action, as well as a medium- and long-term plan to take the profit out of your power bill. To bring back the SEC and to make sure we’ve got the jobs, the renewables, the lower emissions and lower bills that Victorians want.It’s disappointing that printing delays, combined with the wet weather has impacted our ability to open every early voting centre on time. However, the 21 early voting centres affected are supplementary early voting centres we added to our standard complement this year. Importantly, there will still be at least one early voting centre in every district throughout the State opening as normal at 9am. Continue reading…