Chris Bowen (McMahon, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

With 80 reactors, which is what they need, that will cost $400 billion, or 17 per cent of GDP, which is 30 times more than the government spent last year on transport and communications, and over 10 times more than what we spent on defence. But it's okay: the opposition has a plan because the member for Fairfax has announced that the CSIRO is wrong. That's their plan. He's going to wander down to the CSIRO head office and say, 'Sorry, scientists and economists; you are incorrect.' That's their plan.

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