Pauline Hanson secured taxpayer-funded solar rebate despite calling for subsidies to large-scale renewables to end

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Pauline Hanson accessed a taxpayer-funded rebate scheme to install solar power on her Queensland home, despite calling for an end to public subsidies for renewable energy projects.

Information from the Clean Energy Regulator, released under freedom of information laws, shows the One Nation leader among three conservative federal MPs to access the small-scale renewable energy scheme (SRES), despite being a strident critic of government subsidies for net zero policies.