Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In the last two weeks we've seen Mr Dutton dump climate targets for 2030 and then, only days later, announce his dangerous nuclear ploy. Mr Dutton clearly is the Mr Burns of Australian politics, but it is much more serious than that. This is a sinister ploy by Peter Dutton and the coalition to undermine climate action, to undermine renewable energy, to deny climate change and to give cover for the fossil fuel industry. Mr Dutton's policy, if you can call it that—it's not costed, there's no real detail, and we don't know what is going to happen to the radioactive waste, which is so deadly and dangerous—is a sinister ploy to wreck climate action.

As a South Australian, I want to put it very clearly on behalf of my state: we will not accept this toxic, radioactive ploy from Peter Dutton. We are proud of our clean and green renewable energy. South Australia leads the country in the transition, and what Mr Dutton wants to do is to put a radioactive wrecking ball right through our economy and right through our environment, leaving South Australia to host the dangerous, deadly, radioactive dump. South Australians are not going to stand for it, and I certainly won't either.