Home battery subsidy scheme lauded despite government's search for cuts

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Environment Minister Murray Watt praises the home battery subsidy scheme as “phenomenally successful” despite the prime minister declining to rule out means-testing the $7.2b program.

Murray Watt says all ministers have been asked to look for savings in their own portfolios before the mid-year budget update

The environment minister has praised the home battery subsidy scheme as “phenomenally successful” as the prime minister declined to rule out means-testing the $7.2b program

The Coalition is calling for the scheme to be scrapped entirely, labelling it as "unsafe and unaffordable".

Environment Minister Murray Watt says he and all other ministers have been told to find savings in their portfolios, as pressure on the federal government to cut spending ramps up.

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