Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Walsh, for the supplementary. We know Australians are doing a tough, which is why we're not just acting on grocery prices. We are also looking at ways to ease household budgets, and the relief on energy bills does just that. We'll ensure that beneficiaries of our new energy rebates and our tax cuts are households right across Australia. Those come into effect in just seven days time. We're providing $3½ billion in new energy relief, starting on 1 July. Every Australian household will begin to see a $300 credit automatically applied to their electricity bills, and around one million small businesses will receive $325 off their bills over the 2024-25 year. This new power bill relief doubles the number of eligible households from five million to more than 10 million households.