Gavin Marshall (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Given his response, is the minister aware that Mr Warwick McKibbin, a member of the Prime Minister’s hand-picked nuclear task force, has said that, without a price on carbon emissions, nuclear power will not be viable in Australia because of our cheap gas and coal? Minister, how can the Prime Minister continue to talk up the prospects of nuclear power as a viable way of reducing carbon emissions in this country when the government cannot explain how the industry will be commercially viable next to gas and coal?