Peter Garrett (Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

I appreciate that members opposite recognise the significance of Mr Patterson’s name, but the fact is that as the General Manager of Dux Hot Water, he said:

The enhanced solar hot water rebate will create countless new manufacturing and installation jobs … It will also support the jobs of tradespeople at a critical time—particularly those who have been recently displaced from mines and other employment.

This is a nation-building and jobs plan and this is the plan that the Liberal and National parties tried to block. They have been knocking it ever since and they are knocking it in the House this afternoon. But the fact is that this is a plan that delivers jobs. It delivers jobs through a package which not only enables local industry to get out there and put ceiling insulation in the roofs of Australian houses and solar hot water systems on the roofs of Australian homes but also produces low-pollution jobs and local jobs and delivers on our election promises in a way that the opposition can only dream about.

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