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

They come to this dispatch box and ask questions about energy prices at the same time as they vote against energy relief in people's bills that will make a practical difference. And that's at the same time as they now propose the highest-cost new form of energy possible in nuclear. And the true cost of nuclear power in Australia is the grave risk and the great cost of going backwards—not just hundreds of billions of dollars in the cost of constructing the reactors more than a decade away and not just the price that households and businesses would pay for energy that is eight times more than renewables. But it's the danger in that another decade of denial prevents the action on climate but also the investment in energy that we need right now. I have no comprehension, because the opposition haven't released any detail at all of how they could possibly think that the most expensive form of new energy will somehow do anything other than to drive energy costs up.

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