8 December

The impression given by Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan is that it’s nuclear vs renewables. Actually it’s nothing like that at all. He doesn’t even deny renewables will generate by far the most electricity into the future, see below, it’s part of his policy. His nuclear plan is just a trick to support the gas industry, which the LNP has been in bed with for years, remember the ‘gas-led recovery’ under Covid which never happened? The nuclear plan is a distraction to slow down renewables, so that the gas industry can generate more electricity. Gas is the second most expensive way to generate electricity, after nuclear. It’s why our electricity prices are already some of the most expensive in the world. The only cheap energy is renewables. There are no other cheap forms of energy.