Weren't you idiots the ones who brought coal into the parliament office and we're brandishing it as "clean"?

Liberals have been in power most of the last 2 decades. They only spout this bullshit in opposition.

Nuclear was the way to go 20+yrs ago.

Nuclear power is an amazing technology with enormous potential... in the 70s.

50 years later, solar and wind is the way. We can use it to crack sea water and sell hydrogen.

By which they mean triple the number of nuclear power plants in Australia.

I am moderately pro nuclear but the coalition is not. They are on the payroll of the fossil fuel industry (as are some in the ALP) and their fake fascination with nuclear is entirely a delaying tactic to prolong the value of fossil fuel investments. Renewables have been getting all the investment and R&D and that is reflected in the declining costs and ease of deployment. Nuclear has stagnated and the economics and time to market suck. The fossil fuel lobby is not threatened by nuclear which won't take business away from them in Australia. Send uranium to France where they have a mature nuclear industry and restart reactors shut down by fools in places like Germany. Meanwhile lets ramp up our deployment of renewables and shut down more carbon emitters.

Whatever your political leanings, unless you are a billionaire with huge fossil fuel investments they aren't looking out for us, our families or our country. They represent people like the Saudi royals and Adani not us. They care about local coal jobs about as much as Thatcher did and our kid's futures even less.

3x0 is 0

Perhaps Dutton will take a chunk or uranium to parliament.

Has the coalition ever built any major infrastructure in Australia?

Dutton is such a nasty piece of work that it’s written all over his face. Like Voldemort in the flesh.

The Coalition want Nuclear to be the next coal and gas. Meaning big, long-running industries that will receive tons of taxpayer money. Everybody knows that big nuclear projects almost always run over budget and over time. If they start building big nuclear reactors in Australia, I'll take almost any bet that we are going to see ludicrous cost 'blowouts', just so they can maximise the amount of money they extract from the taxpayer. And who will run these projects? Coalition donors. Also it's going to be the Coalition-affiliated mining companies who dig up the nuclear materials.

Nuclear Potato

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8VQclSMsW8

Surely there is a law lizard people can't be PM

This is the best summary I could come up with:

O’Brien’s speech was at a side event hosted by the World Nuclear Association and the Australian group Coalition for Conservation, which flew seven Liberal and National MPs to the summit.

New South Wales Coalition MP Matt Kean, a former state treasurer, acknowledged O’Brien’s commitment to reaching net zero emissions but said “obviously nuclear is a long way away” and the country should back renewable energy now.

The convener of the political fundraising body Climate 200, Simon Holmes à Court, said he was not opposed to a global nuclear expansion, but argued O’Brien’s proposal for Australia had “only one conclusion, and that is blackouts”.

The Australian domestic debate over nuclear energy came as the negotiations over a deal to accelerate global action to tackle the climate crisis entered their final days.

The Cop president, Sultan Al Jaber, called on countries to be open to “flexibility, compromise, cooperation and a true understanding of the urgency of the task”.

In a signal of compromise language that Australia could support, Bowen pointed to a statement at last month’s Pacific Islands Forum that the world should “transition away from coal, oil and gas in our energy systems, in line with Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change pathways for 1.5C, with a peak in fossil fuel consumption in the near term”.

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