Keneally out of touch on electricity

Friday, 07 January 2011 00:00

Media Releases - Kevin Anderson Media Release

Kristina Keneally is out of touch on the impact rising power prices are having on regional families, pensioners and local small businesses, Leader of the Nationals Andrew Stoner and Nationals candidate for Tamworth, Kevin Anderson said today.

Mr Stoner said Kristina Keneally's shutdown of Parliament showed she has failed to listen to the community and still doesn't take the issue of electricity price rises seriously.

"The massive hikes in power prices under Kristina Keneally are hitting regional families, pensioners and small businesses the hardest – and she doesn't seem to care about it," Mr Stoner said.

"According to IPART, in the 10 years til 2012/13, prices will increase by between 96 per cent and 133 per cent. Ms Keneally announced a review into power prices which was to report before the end of 2010, but there's been no sign of it.

"By continuing with this dodgy GenTrader model, the Keneally Labor Government is creating an almost perfect monopoly in regional areas.

"Kristina Keneally must come clean as to how the electricity sale will affect local prices.

"For too long regional NSW has had to bear the brunt of the Keneally Labor Government's incompetence – enough is enough," Mr Stoner said.

The Nationals candidate for Tamworth, Kevin Anderson said that the people of the Tamworth region deserved to know what impact the power sale will have on local electricity prices.

"It's not good enough for the Keneally Labor Government to simply say 'trust me'," Mr Anderson said. "After 16 years of Labor failure and incompetence, it's clear they can't be trusted.

"We have seen time and again how out of touch and incompetent the State Labor Government has become.

"Why should the people of the Gunnedah and Tamworth communities believe anything the Keneally Labor Government and their local apologists say, given their dreadful record on service delivery?

"Only the NSW Liberals & Nationals are standing up to the bully boy tactics of the Keneally Labor Government to ensure local families and businesses get a fair deal on electricity," he said.

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