TY - Report AU - David Richardson PY - 2013 T1 - Electricity and privatisation: what happened to those promises? PB - The Australia Institute DO - https://doi.org/APO-33826 UR - https://apo.org.au/node/33826 AB - Electricity prices are a major contributor to cost of living pressures and a major cause of concern for Australian consumers. While the carbon tax has recently been depicted as the main culprit in electricity price increases, electricity prices have been increasing rapidly for the past two decades. The cost of electricity increased by 170 per cent from 1995 to 2012, an increase four times higher than the rise in the consumer price index (CPI). ER -