Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance and Administration) Share this | Hansard source

The ideological obsession is in the Labor Party, which refuses to even countenance nuclear power despite the fact it provides 16 per cent of the world’s power and 70 per cent of France’s power. Nuclear power is a reality and it is saving the world substantial quantities of greenhouse gas emissions, about which the Labor Party seems so concerned. We are prepared to debate nuclear power in this country; the Labor Party refuses to even engage in that debate.