Senator Andrew Bragg is instead calling for tax breaks for household batteries.
Bans on household gas use risk opening up a fresh culture war over climate policy, moderate Coalition senator Andrew Bragg has warned, adding that the derailing of households’ use of electrical appliances could stop Australia reaching its climate targets.
“Australia can do a lot better than that. If we lose electrification to a culture war, we may never get to net zero.” The Parliamentary Budget Office also modelled a tax deduction of up to 75 per cent, capped at $5250, which it found would result in a 15 per cent increase in uptake by mid-2033 and cost the budget $584 million.
Bragg told this masthead that experts had failed to factor in the community division that would be caused by banning new households from gas connections.
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