Jake Battrick: Australian correspondent on Prime Minister Anthony Albanese promising Australian households a battery subsidy

Australian households are set to gain some federal help to cut down on their energy bills.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese aims to cut down the cost of household batteries to make electricity costs more manageable for Australian households.

Australian correspondent Jake Battrick says these batteries are solar-powered - and cost households up to $10,000.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
International correspondence with Ends and Eye Insurance, Peace of Mind
for New Zealand business. Joining us this afternoon, Jake Patrick
six PR Perth Live presenter our Australian correspondent, Jake Good afternoon,
Good to have you on the show. Now, the women
and three children who were killed in their home this morning,

(00:22):
what can you tell us about that? Do we know
what happened?

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Yeah, it's an awful, awful story. That mother is now
under police guard in hospital, accused of stabbing her three
children with a kitchen knife. This happened at their Boukham
Hills home, so that's about a half an hour drive
northwest of Sydney's CBD. We're hearing reports that the father

(00:46):
of the children woke up to screams from inside the
home where this incident occurred. To we know a ten
year old and a thirteen year old been stabbed in
their abdomen, while a sixteen year old who lived with
the disability and uses a wheelchair, had stab wounds and
multiple lacerations. So they were all taken to Westmead Hospital

(01:08):
in a stable condition. Their forty seven year old mother,
who was also transported to hospital, she had self inflicted
stab wounds and yeah, that investigation is ongoing. Whether any
charges have been laid, we'll probably find out out late
this afternoon.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
A very very sad situation. Indeed, now the Prime Minister
is pledging battery subsidies for homeowners. I'm assuming he doesn't
mean little aaas.

Speaker 2 (01:36):
No, no, that's right. So this is interesting. So the
PMS actually touched down here in Perth earlier this morning
announcing a very West Australian base to hospital announcement, but
for the national audience that he's looking to dip into
power bill subsidies and looking at energy rebates for homeowners

(02:01):
to buy batteries. So you might have seen, you know,
Tesla offers a battery that you can attach to your
home and with solid power and whatnot, you can generate
your own electricity and really cut down on your power bills. Now,
the island irony here is that Anthony Albanezy Labor Prime Minister,
our premier here in Western Australia, is a Labor premier

(02:23):
and he rolled out a very similar policy in the
lead up to our own state election earlier this year.
It's almost a carbon copy and it's essentially for listeners,
you know, a battery that the rebates will before costs
a family about ten thousand and fifteen thousand dollars before installation,

(02:44):
but it will cut your annual power bill by around
one thousand dollars. They're looking at a sort of a
loan or direct subsidy scheme to help homeowners get these
batteries in their house. It's a big debate, the energy
and cost of living debate here in Australia at the moment.
On the other side of politics, the Liberals and the
Coalition are preparing to release their own modeling soon on

(03:07):
the impact of their controversial gas reservation plan. That's also
links into wa because we're the only state in Australia
that has a gas reservation plan in place, which means
we're lucky enough to have cheaper power bills over here.
So that'll be a big talking point whether the gas
reservation policy is what voters are looking for with the

(03:29):
Coalition or the greener energy path with what the Prime
Minister is looking to go down with these home batteries.
So that'll be interesting to play out over the next
few weeks.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Interesting stuff, Jake, thank you very much for that. Jake
Batrick with US six PR Perth Live present to our
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