Peter Dutton says gas would be 15 per cent cheaper right now, if his policy to keep more gas mined here onshore was in effect. The Opposition leader has told voters at a forum in Sydney’s west they would already be seeing cheaper gas bills if he were in power.
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00:00Peter Dutton has framed his pitch to Western Sydney voters around the aspirational elements
00:07of this area.
00:08He says migrants have come to Western Sydney in search of economic prosperity.
00:14But he says the Albanese government and the cost of living crisis is stifling that.
00:19Migration is a tricky area for Peter Dutton in Western Sydney.
00:23This area is full of migrants and he says those people are welcome.
00:27But he also says that there is too much migration and he has already vowed to cut permanent
00:32migration by 25%.
00:34He says a new migrant arrives every 44 seconds and that of course when you bring in a million
00:39people they will all want a house.
00:42His aim here is to frame this issue as existing migrants being welcome but that there are
00:48too many others that could potentially take away from their ability to thrive in Australia.
00:53Peter Dutton says also that the Coalition is the only government that can fix the cost
00:58of living crisis.
00:59He's talked about establishing an east coast gas reserve, something he's promised will
01:04deliver more gas and cheaper power, although the modelling on that is still yet to be released.
01:10He has used a new figure in this speech today, saying that gas prices would be cheaper already
01:16by 15% had his policy already started.
01:20But by ramping up domestic gas production, the Coalition will ensure that Australian
01:24gas is for Australians and it will see prices start to drop by the end of this year.
01:30Gas sold on the domestic market will be decoupled from overseas markets to protect Australians
01:35from international price shocks.
01:37For example, if this decoupling was in place as of February this year, I can announce today
01:44that gas prices would have been 15% cheaper domestically.
01:49The opposition leader was also asked about his work from home policy for Canberra based
01:54Commonwealth public servants.
01:56He says he does still want those people to have flexibility but when people are working
02:01second and third jobs to try and make a living, he says he thinks the government should be
02:06working as hard as it can as well.