David Gillespie (Lyne, National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I would like to give a great shout-out and a thank you to Grace Stanke, a US-trained nuclear engineer and nuclear fuel specialist who took leave from her job as a nuclear engineer in America to go on a tour of Perth, Collie, Port Augusta, Adelaide, Sydney to tour a waste facility, Melbourne, Brisbane, Parliament House, Lithgow and Gippsland. She spoke with Australian nuclear specialists in nuclear law and nuclear engineering—Lenka Kolla; Adi Patterson; Robert Barr; Helen Cook; Kirsty Braybon; Jasmin Diab; and Will Shackel, the prolific teenager who set up Nuclear for Australia. People are hungry for cheap, reliable and clean power, and nuclear delivers that. All those stereotypes about people being afraid of nuclear—once it's explained to them, they are very keen to know more and look forward to Australia embracing it. I'd like to thank Grace so much for taking time out. Americans don't get many holidays, and it probably means she used up all her annual leave to come and educate us about the massive expansion, the safety and the reliability of nuclear power.