Peter Costello (Higgins, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

On this side of the House, we welcome a debate about the nuclear industry. On this side of the House, we have no hang-up at all about exploiting Australia’s resources to gain export income for this country. It is the Labor Party that says, ‘It’s okay to mine uranium in three places, but wrong to mine it in a fourth or a fifth.’ I have no higher authority for the inconsistency of Labor’s policy than the next Labor leader, Bill Shorten, who said—listen to this—

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