Homeowners will be offered 30 per cent off their home batteries if Labor's returned to power at the next election, in a new cost of living pitch to voters. The prime minister has made the 2.3-billion-dollar pledge at a campaign rally in Brisbane.
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00:00Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in Brisbane rallying the party faithful while presenting
00:07what the future would look like if Labor wins the looming election.
00:13The through line of his speech was now is not the time for uncertainty, it's a time
00:17for building, not wrecking.
00:19And that's the message we've been hearing from the Prime Minister so far this campaign.
00:24There was of course also a big focus on Queensland.
00:26The Sunshine State is largely enemy territory for Federal Labor, it holds just 5 of 30
00:33seats here.
00:34It's seeking to gain the Greens held seats of Griffith and Brisbane while also making
00:38a play for the seat of Leicester in far north Queensland.
00:41The popular Coalition MP Warren Ench is retiring and Labor thinks it has a chance of wresting
00:46that off the opposition.
00:48Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has also pledged to spend $2.3 billion to reduce the cost of
00:54home batteries if he wins the election.
00:56From July the installation cost of a typical home battery would come down by 30% or around
01:02$4,000.
01:04With a battery families can store the free energy generated on a sunny day when no one's
01:10home and use it when they need it.
01:12And every household that installs a battery drives down energy prices for everyone else
01:19because it reduces peak demand.
01:22The problem at the moment is the upfront cost of a battery is too high for too many
01:28people.
01:29We're going to fix that.
01:31While 1 in 3 Australian households have solar panels, only 1 in 40 have a battery and so
01:36Labor sees this as the next way to push down household power bills and reduce reliance
01:41on power from the grid.
01:42Energy has been a real feature of this election campaign at a time when cost of living issues
01:48are front and centre of voters' minds.