QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Mr BOWEN (McMahon—Minister for Climate Change and Energy) (14:35): Mr Speaker, 504,470—that's how many Australians have put in a cheaper home battery in the last 12 months. Australia is now the home battery capital of the world. To put this in perspective, Australians have put in 14.1 gigawatt hours worth of home battery capacity in just over 12 months.

The United States has a total of nine gigawatt hours of home battery capacity. Australians have put in more home batteries in the last 12 months than the United States has put in in history. That is the Albanese government and Australians working together to reduce their bills and emissions—reducing bills for themselves and reducing bills for everyone else.

Batteries have played a huge role in seeing the 47 per cent reduction in wholesale prices in Australia over the last 12 months. As the House knows, this is a transformation that is being led in our outer suburbs and regions. When the House last sat, I was able to tell the House that there are five federal electorates where more than 10 per cent of the households have put in a cheaper home battery.

I congratulated the Leader of the Opposition for the people of Hume having 10 per cent of that electorate having put in cheaper home batteries. I can update the House: after the break, it's now 12 per cent, so a big congratulations to the Leader of the Opposition. That's a great result—not as good as the member for Wright, who now has 14 per cent of the households in Wright having a cheaper home battery; the member for Greenway at 13 per cent; the member for Mitchell at 13 per cent; or the member for Mayo at 30 per cent.

But there's other news. I can tell the House that there is now one more federal electorate that has tipped over and now has more than 10 per cent of the households in that electorate having an installed cheaper home battery, and that is the one of the honourable member who asked me the question. The people of Macquarie in Western Sydney are leading the way as the honourable member herself has led the way when it comes to climate action.

I'm asked what could get in the way of change, and the Liberals and Nationals have made it clear that they would abolish this policy. I understand. I get it.

The concept of a popular energy policy is one that they have a lot of difficulty dealing with, given that they went to the last election with a $600 billion nuclear plant, which played no small part in costing them that election, and we're back here again. The member for Wannon said just a little while ago: 'We'll have more to say with our nuclear plan in coming months.

There's a lot of work being done. It's nearly finalised. We'll be able to put it out very soon.' Remember the former leader of the opposition saying it would be out in weeks and it was eight months later and there was no costing?

The next time, there'll be no costing and there'll be no locations either, because they won't even tell the Australian people where the nuclear reactors will go. We look forward to that debate. We look forward to the difference of Australians getting on with reducing their bills.

The Liberals would put them up with their nuclear fantasy.