In Australia Gas is so expensive, we found it was cheaper to just put an electric heater in every room we wanted to heat. The only thing we on gas now is the cook top, so we plant to replace that as well.
Heat pump or resistive? Not familiar with Australia, is the electricity sourced from gas or coal, or something else?
Resistive
I bought 4 Nobos. They are clean, quiet, fast enough, and best of all have a "lifetime warranty" that I plan to make use of when they die.
https://www.nobo.com.au/en-au
What am I missing? These things just look like fancy resistance heaters, exactly the same efficiency as a $15 space heater (significantly less efficient than a heat pump).
No they are not efficient, but my power is almost free, and renewable. Heat pump hardware is very expensive and not as flexible.
Lots of Australian electricity comes from coal (about 60%).
I live in the ACT so its 100% renewable. We also recently put 6.5kw of solar on the roof so most of our daytime power is self generated. (I was against the rooftop solar but my partner insisted, it makes no sense economically or environmentally.)