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

You're right, Senator Ghosh, that cheaper home batteries doesn't just deliver benefits for those Australian households—with 15,000 that have already taken advantage of the scheme—it also delivers system-wide benefits. It's not the only Albanese government policy on the electricity system that is breaking records. Our policies across the economy are helping drive down emissions and deliver on our targets, with a record renewable uptake. Energy and industrial emissions are lower than when we came to government, with policies like the safeguard reforms, the Capacity Investment Scheme and the Cheaper Home Batteries Program helping turn around a decade of denial and neglect that drove disinvestment, fewer Australian jobs and more Australian jobs flooding offshore because of the policy incoherence that was on display in the Morrison period and is back on display here in Canberra right now. (Time expired)