Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

It says something about the coalition that they're more worried about some social media memes than about ensuring that national security is above politics. It says something absolutely about them, doesn't it? You're so glass jawed. You're so worried about some social media thing I haven't even looked at, but you're happy to bring national security issues into a partisan debate. Give us a break.

In relation to Lucas Heights, I would remind those opposite that, as I said, the facility in Lucas Heights is a medical research facility; it isn't a nuclear power plant. It's completely different in operation and scale from a traditional power plant, producing just 20 megawatts of energy, about two per cent of the size of a typical one-gigawatt large-scale nuclear facility. I know you're grasping at straws because you still can't tell taxpayers how much you're going to make them pay.

Senator Cash, when did you turn into a socialist, making taxpayers pay for this plan to build seven reactors? When did you turn— (Time expired)