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

I thank the member for his question. Jenny George was indeed a fine president of the ACTU who represented working people day in day out while she was there. Then of course she came into the electorate of Throsby and now she is an Australian columnist. Sometimes people change. Sometimes they change. It happens. Mark Latham once sat as Leader of the Opposition. Sometimes that happens, and, when it happens, that is okay too.

What we have done is make sure that we are delivering on our commitment that we made to take action on climate change. We know that those opposite want to have a debate about our plan for renewables, firmed by gas, with their plan for—I don't know what—between now and the 2040s, when nuclear will come in. A couple of little facts: nuclear energy peaked as a proportion of global energy in 1996 and has been falling ever since. The number of nuclear reactors worldwide peaked in 2002—22 years ago—and last year the world added 460 gigawatts—

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