Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

It slashes the price of a battery—Senator McDonald talks about cost—by 30 per cent and, for many of those households, will bring down their energy bills by up to 90 per cent. This involves tens of thousands of people in electorates like Gilmore, where 214 Australian households have taken advantage of the scheme; Macquarie, where 200 Australian households have done so; the seat of Hunter, where 197 Australian households have taken up this offer and delivered cheaper power and cheaper batteries for themselves; Flinders, where 109 households have done so; the seat of Wright, where 238 have done so; and, in Western Australia, where Senator Cash was indulging in a right-wing ideological frolic over the weekend, the seats of Mayo and Tangney. All lead their states.

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