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

The answer is: no, Australia is not signing the nuclear energy agreement. That's because we do not have a nuclear energy industry. What we will keep doing is continuing to work closely with our international partners to reach net zero, and we will remain observers to this agreement to continue to support our scientists in other nuclear research fields. I think we all understand what Senator Birmingham is seeking to do with this question, which is seeking somehow to build some foundation—some scaffolding—around the so-called policy that Mr Dutton announced. It's a policy that we know will cost billions of dollars, which they haven't fessed up to, and a policy which will deliver—was it four per cent?