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Australia’s major coal-fired power plant owners have doubts about the timing of Peter Dutton’s plan to transition to nuclear power.

Dutton’s ‘brave’ nuclear bet relies on coal plants. Their owners are concerned

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s energy plan is for coal plants to keep running until nuclear is built. But the coal owners need answers.

  • Mike Foley

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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will face off in Parliament on Monday with questions over flight upgrades likely to dominate.

‘He’s scared’: Dutton demands debate as Albanese taunts ‘hiding’ opposition leader

Albanese mocks Dutton for hiding from proper press conferences, but Dutton challenges the PM to a debate.

  • James Massola
Peter Dutton once claimed a small modular nuclear reactor would produce only a Coke can’s worth of waste.

Dutton said a reactor’s waste would fill a Coke can. Try 27,000 of them

Australia would face a big nuclear waste task under the opposition’s energy policy, which would generate hundreds of barrels of spent nuclear fuel a year.

  • Mike Foley
Peter Dutton.

Dutton says nuclear will cost $331 billion. Chalmers adds $4 trillion to that

The Coalition’s nuclear power plan forecasts much lower energy use than Labor’s renewables-focused policy. That could hit growth by up to 12 per cent annually.

  • Shane Wright and Mike Foley
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton announces the Coalition’s nuclear costings.

Millions fewer Australians to drive electric cars or have rooftop solar under Dutton’s vision

Dutton’s $331 billion plan hinges on running coal plants for potentially decades longer than current forecasts and building the first nuclear plant by 2037.

  • Mike Foley and Paul Sakkal
Dozens of renewable projects are stuck in the planning system.

As billions of dollars pour into renewables, a planning backlog stalls the rollout

The Albanese government is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to dislodge the backlog of projects stuck in the planning system.

  • Mike Foley and Nick Toscano
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Peter Dutton and the price of nuclear power.

The Coalition told the CSIRO to redo its nuclear report. It’s bad news for Dutton

Peter Dutton’s Coalition wanted new modelling on the cost of nuclear energy. The CSIRO obliged, but the opposition leader won’t like the results.

  • Mike Foley
The CSIRO has said renewables deliver the cheapest electricity and a nuclear plant would cost up to $16 billion to build.

Dutton to claim nuclear rollout will end up cheaper than renewables

The opposition leader will reveal his costings for seven nuclear plants as soon as next week.

  • Paul Sakkal
East coast Australia is running out of gas and we are left with little option but to import it, either from ourselves or overseas.

It’s dumb, but gas-rich Australia has little option but to import gas

Australia is one of the largest LNG exporters behind the US, so why are its most populous states at risk of running out?

  • Mike Foley
Inflation is at its lowest level in three years.

No mortgage joy for Christmas with RBA holding out on interest rate drop

A smaller-than-expected rise in prices through the September quarter has brought inflation down to 2.8 per cent – but it’s not enough for the Reserve Bank.

  • Shane Wright

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