Press conference in Fairfield West, NSW

CHRIS BOWEN: Well, yesterday we saw some more detail from the Opposition finally about their energy payments – not their nuclear costings which are way, way overdue, not their details about their nuclear policy, but their policy to include a government subsidy for gas. Not just new gas, but existing gas. A windfall gain for existing big gas companies who are in the system. So, Mr O'Brien and Mr Dutton are making it up as they go.

It's this government which delivered a Capacity Investment Scheme. It's this government which is delivering a Capacity Investment Scheme which is producing excellent results for Australian energy, with our auctions being massively oversubscribed with more renewable energy coming on now because of the Capacity Investment Scheme which the Liberal Party failed to introduce. So, Mr O'Brien has a couple of questions to answer.

Firstly, why is he providing a windfall gain for gas companies who are already producing electricity? Secondly, how would his auction work when renewable energy is the cheapest form of energy and will beat a gas proposal in any auction under consideration?

So, this is just more making it up as he goes. The Liberal Party might want to subsidise nuclear and subsidise fossil fuels. We're concentrating on getting more renewable energy into the system to reduce energy prices and provide real Australians with real cost of living relief. Happy to take any questions.

JOURNALIST: Any reaction to the news the Prime Minister has bought a million dollar property?

CHRIS BOWEN: Well, look, I think Australians want the government focused on providing more houses for them, and that's exactly what we're doing.

And I've seen the Greens have been out there criticising the Prime Minister. The Greens should worry less about one house and more about the 40,000 houses the government's trying to provide to Australians through our Help to Buy policy. They should be throwing less rocks and more votes at good policy.

We're providing good policy through the Senate. Mr Dutton and Mr Bandt, the Liberals and the Greens are combining forces to stop us providing 40,000 affordable houses to Australians. There's those 40,000 houses that I care about, not one house. And the Greens should care about those 40,000 houses as well, not one house.

Thank you. Cheers.