Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has thrown the switch to brow-beating, calling in the nation's biggest electricity retailers for face-to-face talks next Wednesday in a bid to curb galloping household and business electricity bills, and improve their market sensitivity.
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| Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull puts in ear plugs during a visit to the Snowy Hydro plant. |
In comments that go some way to vindicating claims from one of his backbenchers that people would die this winter from not being able to afford heating, Mr Turnbull says the cost pressures from sky-rocketing energy prices are leading families to avoid turning on heating and lights, and that businesses are doing the same with plants.
Read Mark Kenny’s story in today’s Melbourne Age - “Feel the power: Malcolm Turnbull summons electricity retailers to Canberra for summit.”
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