Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

In addition to that big battery that has been announced today, I can confirm what the Prime Minister told the House just a few moments ago: in the last four weeks, 18,336 Australian households have added a battery to their household under the Albanese government's cheaper home battery policy.

The honourable gentleman opposite asked me, 'Will we meet our targets?' I believe we will. But we also know what that target is and I believe in it. It takes some temerity from those opposite to ask this side of the House about meeting our targets when they can't agree on whether they have a target! The House, just before question time, voted to bring on the member for New England's bill for a vote next sitting week. You know who voted to bring on the bill? This side of the House plus the member for New England. Everybody else over there voted against the House getting the chance to vote on a bill—even the seconder of the bill, the second person in the bromance, the member for Riverina. We know what our targets are, we know how to get there. We intend to get there. They don't even know what their target is.

I apologise to the member for Riverina for the connection with the member for New England.

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