Tuesday, 25 August 2026

 Matt FREGON (Ashwood) (12:52): I also want to mention a great visit to the Deakin University Battery Research and Innovation Hub, which is in our patch, to hear more about Sodium Batteries Australia. This is quite an interesting idea. I mean, it is not the first in the world, but this is something that we can have as an option here for some of our data centres that could potentially not use lithium batteries but use sodium batteries, which are less likely to catch fire. It might be something we all want to think about. Big thanks to Justin Begg and the team down there for showing me around and to Deakin University, who are doing great work with them.