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Chris Bowen

January

As someone who wants to lead a country, why would Peter Dutton be planning for an economy that’s smaller and an industrial sector that’s worse off with no growth opportunities.

Dutton’s nuclear plan to wipe out Australia’s aluminium smelters

The Coalition’s costings are predicated on large industrial facilities in the southern and eastern states of Australia halving their energy use by the end of 2030.

September 2024

The hidden costs behind the Coalition’s nuclear energy plan is disturbing.

Beware the hidden cost of Dutton’s nuclear plan

The Coalition’s timeline will need major expansion of gas to replace sidelined renewable energy projects, which will be a huge and needless expense.

June 2024

Australians know that renewables drive down prices.

Culture war is driving Coalition’s plan to stop renewables rollout

The first auction of the Capacity Investment Scheme has received more than 40 gigawatts of project registrations, showing there is a strong pipeline of renewables ready to go with the right policy settings.

April 2024

A solar farm in Lilyvale, Queensland. powering the sunshine state.

Let’s not waste the green energy opportunity

The government’s industry policy is not some throwback to the Deakinite settlement. It’s quite the opposite.

August 2023

Nuclear power is not suitable for Australia, Chris Bowen says.

Five serious answers why nuclear is the wrong solution for Australia

After 10 years of denial and delay on climate action, I’m not interested in more distraction from debate on an energy source which clearly doesn’t stack up for our country.

July 2022

This global economic transformation underway is enormous, the biggest economic change since at least the second world war and possibly the industrial revolution.

Pass the climate bill to end the energy culture wars

Legislating the 2030 emissions reduction target will send the message that the country now has a government and a parliament that wants Australia to be a renewables powerhouse.

Original URL: https://www.afr.com/by/chris-bowen-p536d0