David Batt (Hinkler, Liberal National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Did Australian families see the $275 reduction in their energy bills the Prime Minister promised 97 times?

Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Link to 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.

Milton Dick (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order, the member for Lingiari! I'll keep an eye out for props. Don't worry about that. But the minister has concluded, so the member for Gippsland will also resume his seat. The member for Cowper is going to leave the chamber. I just specifically said, 'Don't mention props.' You're on a warning. It is not appropriate behaviour, and I warned at the beginning of question time this is what happens. There are consequences for actions.

The member for Cowper then left the chamber.