Labor’s proposed ‘people’s provider’ will reduce electricity bills for households and businesses, Queensland premier says
Queensland deputy premier Cameron Dick and premier Steven Miles say a new state-owned energy retailer would make energy bills cheaper.Queensland deputy premier Cameron Dick and premier Steven Miles say a new state-owned energy retailer would make energy bills cheaper.Labor premier sold off the state’s energy retailer, the party has conceded privatisation failed consumers and promised a new publicly owned “people’s” energy provider to power cheaper electricity bills.
Across the vast swathes of the state classed as regional Queensland – which includes major cities from Toowoomba to Cairns – it would see the new retailer compete against the existing state-owned Ergon, which is both distributor and retailer. “There is a number of ways a government can deal by working with the private sector and indeed looking at its own back yard to reduce your emissions,” he said.Chamber Queensland CEO, Heidi Cooper, claiming the “interventionist policy” would do little to put downward pressure on energy prices, but instead create another layer of bureaucracy and reduce competition.“Another state-owned body is anti-competitive, inefficient and interferes in the free market,” she said in a statement.
“Can people honestly say that Telstra, the Commonwealth Bank and Qantas, for example, do they feel they get better service now than they did in the 1980s?” he said.
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