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

I thank my honourable friend for her question, and what a champion job she does in representing the interests of regional Australians and rural Australians in this House, representing the aspirations of those on that beautiful part of the south coast of New South Wales. The honourable member for Gilmore knows that people in regional Australia are taking up the opportunities for cheaper and more reliable energy, particularly through the Albanese government's Cheaper Home Batteries Program, which, I am pleased to inform the House today, has now been taken up by 108,494 Australian households.

Increasingly, we see a heavy representation from rural and regional Australia in those figures. The member knows that the people of Gilmore have taken up the scheme with some great enthusiasm, but I have to say it is not a podium finish anymore in New South Wales, because the electorate with the highest take-up of cheaper home batteries in all of New South Wales is Page. Second, we have Richmond. Coming in a very strong third in the trifecta is the member for Riverina, who has the third-highest take-up of cheaper home batteries in all of Australia. I know it warms his heart to see his constituents taking up the opportunities of cleaner, more reliable, cheaper energy.

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