QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Ms LEY (Farrer—Leader of the Opposition) (14:01): My question is to the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. I refer to the front page of today's Australian. Under pressure from Senator Dean Smith in the other place, Labor has finally released a secret government document which warns of 'a further significant increase in retail electricity prices'.

It was also revealed that the Clerk of the Senate called Labor's obfuscation 'not acceptable'. Why did this minister do everything he could to hide this document from the Australian public instead of doing everything he could to reduce power prices by $275?