Today I met with Carly Martin, who owns the local-favourite Spencer’s Café in Lindisfarne.
Carly has noticed that rising power costs are just one more thing to contend with in a business environment where the cost of everything is going up.
Her power rates have risen by over 10 per cent over the past year, and the prices of goods like coffee and food have skyrocketed over the same period.
With the next power-price decision due in the middle of the year, many businesses like Spencer’s are worried that another increase will occur.
Jeremy Rockliff’s bad decision to break his own Government’s promise to keep energy prices low is hurting Tasmanian businesses.
After nearly a decade in power, the Liberal Government is old, tired and out of ideas. The cost-of-living crisis is getting worse, the cost of doing business is rising, and they haven’t done anything to fix it.
Tasmanian Labor has a policy of capping power price increases at 2.5 per cent each year for the next three years, which would save businesses thousands of dollars a year.
We would also apply a power rebate for larger contracted customers, who’ve seen their prices double and in some cases triple over the last nine months.
Tasmanian businesses deserve to pay Tasmanian prices for Tasmanian power, but thanks to Jeremy Rockliff’s bad decisions, they are not.'
Sarah Lovell MLC
Labor Member for Rumney
Shadow Minister for Community Services & Development