{"id":21633,"date":"2023-07-03T03:59:31","date_gmt":"2023-07-03T03:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=21633"},"modified":"2023-07-03T03:59:31","modified_gmt":"2023-07-03T03:59:31","slug":"labors-energy-bill-relief-falls-short-as-energy-prices-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/07\/03\/labors-energy-bill-relief-falls-short-as-energy-prices-surge\/","title":{"rendered":"Labor&#8217;s Energy Bill Relief Falls Short As Energy Prices Surge"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change James Griffin has called on the NSW Labor Government to reconsider energy bill relief for households as energy price rises increase pressures on household budgets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom today energy prices in New South Wales will increase by around 20%, adding pressure to household budgets already feeling the squeeze under Federal Labor\u2019s cost of living crisis,\u201d Mr Griffin said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHalf of all NSW households will receive no energy bill relief for seven years under this Labor Government, who dumped the Liberal and Nationals Government\u2019s $250 rebate.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA re-elected Coalition government would have provided every household in NSW with $250 off their energy bills from today by simply looking for a better deal that. Instead, under this Labor Government around 1.5 million households get nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLabor have chosen union bosses over hard-working families, having to cut essential cost of living pressures to fund their $2.5 billion public sector wage increase. They should reconsider their priorities and provide energy bill relief for all NSW families and households.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re yet to see any detail from Chris Minns and his Government on their proposed government-owned energy bureaucracy, which by his own admission won\u2019t deliver households any savings for up to seven years.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLabor\u2019s broken promises and wrong priorities mean families right across NSW are paying more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOnly the Liberals and Nationals can be trusted to put families ahead of unions and deliver meaningful cost of living relief,\u201d Mr Griffin concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shadow Minister for Energy and Climate Change James Griffin has called on the NSW Labor Government to reconsider energy bill relief for households as energy price rises increase pressures on household budgets. \u201cFrom today energy prices in New South Wales will increase by around 20%, adding pressure to household budgets already feeling the squeeze under &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/07\/03\/labors-energy-bill-relief-falls-short-as-energy-prices-surge\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Labor&#8217;s Energy Bill Relief Falls Short As Energy Prices Surge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21634,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21633\/revisions\/21634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}