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

There are a number of articles. She is a regular columnist for The Australian. Good luck to Jenny George. I wish her well. We are talking about a plan to go forward, as the world is. That plan is being driven by renewables and the shift that's happening with the transition to clean energy. That is what is happening. That's why the world last year added 460 gigawatts of new non-hydro renewables, while nuclear energy generation went backwards by one gigawatt. The United States added 39 gigawatts of new renewables last year and no nuclear. Last year, China added 217 gigawatts of new renewables and only one gigawatt of new nuclear. The reason why the world is transitioning to clean energy is because its leaders understand not only is that good for the environment, it's also good for their economies. That is why Australia is a part of that global transition that's occurring. Those opposite want to press the pause button, don't have any plan for between now and 2040s and won't tell us how much their plan that will contribute some four per cent of our energy needs in the 2040s will cost.

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