Assistant Treasurer Stephen Jones says there are early signs the government’s energy interventions are “starting to work”.
“The price caps and the policies we put in place in relation to gas and coal in culmination with the states, we’re seeing early signs that that’s starting to work,” Mr Jones told Sky News Australia.
“So those longer-term contracts, the wholesale prices in the energy market will start to flow through in the prices that households are paying and that businesses are paying.”
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