What drives the Liberal Party’s push towards nuclear energy is not a concern that Australia’s renewable energy transformation is happening too slowly. The opposite is true. The Liberal and National parties are concerned that our energy policies are too effective for their comfort, given their ideological opposition to renewables.

Renewable energy generation in the national grid is up 25 per cent since we came to office, with 8.5 gigawatts of new renewable energy added to our grid. The first auction of the Capacity Investment Scheme, which will support 6GW of new power, has received more than 40GW of project registrations, showing there is a strong pipeline of renewables ready to go with the right policy settings.