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

I thank my honourable friend for the question, and I am glad that he has asked me about policies that are in the best interests of households and the country and his great state of Western Australia. I can again confirm that, over the last 24 hours, another 1,000 Australian households have taken up the Albanese Labor governments Cheaper Home Batteries Program, bringing the total to 18,336. But I'm sorry to tell the member for Tangney that his electorate in Western Australia has the second-highest take-up in Western Australia of the Cheaper Home Batteries Program, which isn't bad, but it's not as good as that of the member for Canning, whose electorate has the highest take-up of the batteries program in all of Western Australia.

The good households of Canning are embracing net zero, cheaper home batteries and renewable energy at a rapid pace, and that comes as little surprise, because the people of Canning know that, if you take up a battery, together with solar, under the Albanese government's Cheaper Home Batteries Program, you can save $2,300 each and every year—a permanent bill reduction which is eerily similar to the benefits for all Australians of net zero. We know that economic modelling shows that net zero will make every single Australian household $2,000 better off.

The member for New England is whispering an interjection to me which I'm not sure is entirely parliamentary, but he might want to be more complimentary to the Morrison-Joyce government, because the modelling I just quoted was from the Morrison-Joyce government's The plan to deliver net zero: the Australian way

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