Dobbo Chats – Solar batteries (27 April)

0:00Welcome back to Rural Queensland today. Well, the headlines don't read well for the Premier and the Prime Minister. Clean energy regulator order reveals three in four Queensland solar batteries installed are sub-standard. At first, dodgy retailers taking advantage of the federal government scheme have put hundreds of Queensland homes at risk through unsafe solar battery installs. Now, this, in the current mile, written by Paul Bersekker, up the 560 Queensland homes and businesses could have unsafe solar battery systems installed through the government scheme sparking concerns of dodgy retailers taking advantage. Three out of four battery audits in Queensland, which were installed as part of a federal government rebates scheme were found sub-standard. The order conducted by clean energy regulators, CER, found Queensland was the worst results in the country. They ordered at 900 systems, installed under the government's solar battery rebates scheme across Australia and found more than 60 were sub-standard.

1:03In Queensland, 66 of 267 inspections were found adequate. Well, 198 were sub-standard. The worst rate in the country. Now, three were classified as unsafe covering critical issues and must be fixed immediately. Given up, it's a 56,000 have been installed in Queensland. Since Albanese, he took this government solar rebates scheme, started in June. If the ordered results are representatives, there could be 560 or more unsafe batteries in the state. Now, a spokesman for CER said solar home batteries included built-in safety systems, including an automatic shut down if the fault on-save conditions was detected. If someone is considering solar battery installation, our advice would be ensure obtained three quotes, use a good retailer in store and make sure. But are you surprised at something that the government has been running has deemed it up being a dog's breakfast? GI Energy Project Management and Business Development Director,

2:03Daniel McCabe has been in the industry since 2009, and said new businesses popped up up the subsidies introduced in 2025. And this is like NDIS. As a result, consultants go to home, plan installations, to stretch them and try to fit people in to generic builds. We had people come and knock at our door. Doji is dodgy. If you're being sold a battery in a 10-minute phone call without a decent consultation, there's no site where they turn up one day and thrash out an install. It's probably not what you want. But Albanese, he's all smug. Well, what about that? We've seen it now, time and time again, the dodgy installs are continually and we've seen it within iOS as well. NDIS, just unbelievable. I'm not surprised by this at all because this is the way this government goes. The sugar hit the win votes and in make all these big announcements and it's absolute garbage. It's horrific. It's horrific.

3:05And I'm sorry, the more and more this goes on, the more and more we forget. Now, the Donald Trump situation over the last 24 hours is quite worrying. And people can say what they want. But Donald Trump had another person and alleged White House shooter, who sent an anti-Christian manifesto to each family minutes before gunfire up that had hatred in his heart. That's what they're saying. He survived a third assassination attempt, Donald Trump, up to being evacuated from the White House correspondence dinner when a gunman charged security in the ballroom of the White House, the Washington Hilton. Accused Andy Trungumman, Cole Allen, sent a crazed manifesto to each family 10 minutes before he opened fire at the event. God almighty our country's in a bad way. He's a teacher from California, called himself a friendly federal assassin

4:08and revealed he was trying to kill Trump administration officials. He wrote in an unhinged manifesto that he would have shot any of the 2,500 gala attendees if they've gotten away of him executing his Trump administration targets. Mr. Trump told Fox News the accused gunman who sent any manifesto to each family minutes before gunfire erupted, had a lot of hatred in his heart. Well, this is a bad and sad day and America is so divided at the moment, but gee, whiz it's in a mess. I just hope that they can get some control and some rein bet. We'll take a break, come back plenty more to get through.