House debates
Thursday, 12 February 2026
Questions without Notice
Energy
3:13 pm
Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source
There's no getting away from me. I thank the honourable member for the question. I thank the Prime Minister for the opportunity to take it. What Australians have had access to is 230,000 cheaper home batteries to reduce their bills to nothing, including 44 per cent of them in rural and regional Australia and including—in the honourable member's home state of Queensland, 55 per cent of cheaper home batteries have been in rural and regional Australia. Fifty-five per cent in Queensland—the people those opposite are meant to represent.
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