To cut household bills and slash pollution, we want federal election candidates to commit to:

Help existing households make clean energy upgrades

• Provide subsidies and low-cost finance to support and incentivise homeowners to perform energy efficiency upgrades and install rooftop solar and batteries.
• Develop and fund a program to remove barriers to communal solar installations, ensuring that owners of buildings with common rooftops (such as low-rise apartment buildings and townhouses) are able to install rooftop solar.

Ensure all new homes are affordable, healthy and all-electric

• Build on recent reforms to the National Construction Code, and work with the states on a national approach and timeframe for requiring all-electric homes across the country

Ensure renters live in healthy, comfortable and affordable homes

• Introduce national minimum energy performance standards for rental properties, mandating adequate insulation, draught-proofing, energy-efficient appliances, as well as rooftop solar where practicable.
• Develop and fully fund low-cost finance, benefit sharing and/or rebates supporting tenants to access energy efficiency upgrades and rooftop solar. Options include HECS-style income-contingent repayments via the ATO, or repayments via a surcharge on household electricity bills for a fixed (e.g. 10-year) period.

Roll out rooftop solar and storage for all social housing

• Introduce national minimum energy performance standards for social housing properties, mandating adequate insulation, draught-proofing, energy-efficient appliances and rooftop solar where practicable.
• Continue working with the states to expand the rollout of the Social Housing Energy Performance Initiative