{video} The prime minister has travelled to coal mining heartland in the New South Wales Hunter Valley to announce a $1 billion program that aims to boost the number of solar panels made in Australia. One in three Australian households have solar panels, the highest rate in the world, but only 1 per cent of them are manufactured locally. The federal government hopes to change that with its new Solar SunShot program, which will oversee production subsidies and grants to increase Australia's role in the global solar manufacturing supply chain. Mr Albanese told ABC Radio Newcastle that the site of the closed Liddell ... (full story)