Energy<\/a> Regulator to Steggall, showed that a small-scale certificate application was made for a residential property owned by Pauline Hanson in Queensland in April last year, with the application lodged in her name. It was approved.<\/p>\nCanavan had an STC application approved in 2020, while Hogan had one approved for a property in his name in 2019.<\/p>\n
The moderate Liberal senator Andrew Bragg \u2013 who has been a supporter of action to address the climate crisis \u2013 has also benefited from the scheme, while another 13 conservative critics subject to the FoI were found not to have accessed the program.<\/p>\n
In a 30-second clip posted to her party\u2019s Facebook page last August titled \u201cDebunking the anti renewables myth\u201d, Hanson revealed that she had installed solar panels on her home.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am not anti-renewables. Actually I put panels on my roof at home this year, so I have put them on myself,\u201d Hanson said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am anti renewables and putting solar panels \u2026 hundreds of thousands, or millions [of them], on agricultural land.\u201d<\/p>\n
The interviewer then summarises: \u201cSo Pauline Hanson is for solar panels on roofs, for keeping coal-fired power stations open, and pro-nuclear.\u201d<\/p>\n
However, Hanson has been a fierce critic of government subsidies for renewables, calling for them to be wound up in a Senate speech last year.<\/p>\n
\u201cBillions of dollars of taxpayer subsidies for windfarms and solar panels over the past two decades have only resulted in massive increase in the cost of energy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Canavan, one of the Nationals\u2019 most strident critics of subsidies for renewables, last year told the Senate that Australians were being subject to a \u201cgreen energy scam\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cTime and time again, there seems to be this disconnect: we say that renewable energy is the cheapest form of power; yet the more renewable energy is installed, the higher everyone\u2019s power prices go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Canavan defended using the subsidy saying he was \u201cnot against renewable electricity or electric vehicles\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I do not think the government should be taking from the poor to pay rich people to have these things,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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Penny Wong gives emotional speech as Pauline Hanson is censured in Australian Senate \u2013 video<\/p>\n
\u201cI agree with Kerry Packer. I am going to minimise my contribution to governments as much as possible because they\u2019re not spending it well enough to deserve donations. Zali wants higher taxes. Has she made some voluntary contributions?\u201d<\/p>\n
Hogan has also taken aim at net zero policies, saying the \u201creckless\u201d ambition means \u201cmore blackouts and higher power bills.\u201d<\/p>\n
Defending his use of the SRES, Hogan said he had participated in \u201ca very successful Coalition government policy\u201d that had helped with the uptake of rooftop solar, but he expressed concerns about current subsidies for renewables.<\/p>\n
\u201cTaxpayer support should be targeted, transparent and deliver clear value for money. Not rely on large, open-ended subsidies,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Steggall, who has also benefited from the SRES, criticised the MPs who had attacked subsidies while at the same time benefiting from them.<\/p>\n
\u201cDespite the hollow rightwing rhetoric, the benefits of renewable energy are appreciated and enjoyed across the political spectrum,\u201d Steggall said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe hypocrisy is breathtaking. If renewable energy is supposedly so harmful, why are these politicians lining up to benefit from it and taking public subsidies in the process?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pauline Hanson accessed a taxpayer-funded rebate scheme to install solar power on her Queensland home, despite calling for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-529591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}