Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

that the cheapest form of new energy here in Australia is renewables. That's why, when it comes to nuclear, those opposite have had to go and say: 'Forget about our support for private enterprise; forget about our support for markets—we're going to have a command economy system. We're going to nationalise the energy system.' Why are they saying that? Because not a single bank, not a single financial institution, will finance a nuclear reactor in Australia.

That's why the Leader of the Opposition himself said just last year that he didn't support large-scale nuclear reactors. He was opposed to them. That's what I assume they all said in the 22 different plans that they handed down when they were in government, without one of them being pro nuclear. Of course, it was the hero of those opposite, John Howard, who went out there and legislated for a nuclear reactor ban here in Australia—

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