The Hon Angus Taylor MP Transcripts
JOURNALIST: Minister, is this fair dinkum power?
REBECCA LEVINGSTON: Imagine going to school and knowing your classroom is off the grid - because that's the reality for students at Bracken Ridge State High School. This school on the north side of Brisbane is the first in Queensland to entirely rely on renewable energy to power their classroom. Angus Taylor is the Minister for Energy. He'll be launching the pilot classroom at the school this morning. Minister, good morning. How is Bracken Ridge State High School gone off the grid?
PETA CREDLIN: Welcome to the show Angus Taylor. Congratulations on your appointment as Energy Minister - I don't think there's any bigger job for the Morrison Government going into what could be an election within the next six months. How have you settled into the role?
JUSTIN SMITH: On this Sunday on Macquarie Weekly, on the line is the Minister for Energy, the Federal Minister for Energy, Angus Taylor. Minister, thank you for your time.
ANGUS TAYLOR: Hi, Justin. Good to speak with you.
JUSTIN SMITH: Will you be able to bring electricity prices down?
JUSTIN SMITH: On this Sunday on Macquarie Weekly, on the line is the Minister for Energy, the Federal Minister for Energy, Angus Taylor. Minister, thank you for your time.
ANGUS TAYLOR: Hi, Justin. Good to speak with you.
JUSTIN SMITH: Will you be able to bring electricity prices down?
ANGUS TAYLOR: I've just come from the COAG Energy Council meeting - it was extremely constructive and productive. We made very good progress on the critical issues that we need to progress to put downward pressure on electricity prices while we keep the lights on - the top priority in the electricity market for the Commonwealth Government.
ANGUS TAYLOR: I've just come from the COAG Energy Council meeting - it was extremely constructive and productive. We made very good progress on the critical issues that we need to progress to put downward pressure on electricity prices while we keep the lights on - the top priority in the electricity market for the Commonwealth Government.
DAVID BEVAN: Angus Taylor, Federal Minister for Energy, welcome to ABC Radio Adelaide.
ANGUS TAYLOR: Thanks for having me.
DAVID BEVAN: These changes to allow people to read their own electricity and gas meters, is this part of the Prime Minister's fair dinkum energy policy?
ANGUS TAYLOR: We have seen in the last 24 hours, Labor siding with the big energy companies. Labor is singing from the same songbook as the big energy companies. They are defending the price gouging, they are defending dodgy practices and they are defending record profits. Well we stand arm-in-arm with the hardworking Australian businesses and families who want to see lower power prices. They want to see the end of loyalty taxes of confusion. They want to see a fair deal when they don't have time to spend hours on the phone to call centres to get their power prices down.
KIERAN GILBERT: Let's bring in the Energy Minister now, Angus Taylor. Your thoughts on, well, that reaction first of all from Richard Di Natale?