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Peter Dutton is yet to visit the site of the Coalition’s proposed nuclear power plants during the campaign.

Liberals take note: Nuclear failure has crowned clean energy

Peter Dutton’s power station policy was so comprehensively rejected by voters that it is off the table permanently.

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Dutton’s campaign stop in Sanctuary Point, NSW – in the seat of Gilmore – was interrupted by anti-nuclear protesters.

Nuclear fallout: Coalition’s energy policy proved toxic to voters

After three years of uproar against renewable energy’s impact on regional communities, they embraced offshore wind and rejected nuclear power.

  • Mike Foley
Helen Caldicott can’t understand why Australian’s aren’t terrified of nuclear energy.

Australians once feared the health impacts of nuclear. Now nobody’s talking about it

Anti-nuclear advocacy once spurred huge protests and galvanised a political movement. With nuclear a core policy of the Coalition, few are talking about the medical dangers.

  • Angus Delaney
Prime Minsiter Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton.

Labor challenges last-minute scare on super tax

Labor is moving to counter fears about a $2.3 billion hit to taxpayers from new rules on retirement funds after Dutton branded the plan an “inheritance tax”.

  • David Crowe

I lived through Fukushima. Australia should think twice about nuclear

Despite the fallout from the devastating 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident, Japan remains locked in to nuclear power. Australia can still choose other less dangerous sources of energy.

  • Ayumi Honda
Coalition energy spokesman Ted O’Brien and Energy Minister Chris Bowen.

‘Voldemort policy’: Labor, Coalition deny hiding energy plans in nuclear election

An earthquake shook a region slated for one of Peter Dutton’s nuclear plants and the PM visited another in a campaign in which the energy debate has been quietly shifted off stage.

  • Mike Foley
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Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has committed to build seven nuclear plants across the country if he wins the next election

Renewable energy investors demand answers on Coalition nuclear plan

Major renewable energy companies are pressing Peter Dutton to reveal how much extra wind and solar he would permit under his plan to adopt nuclear reactors.

  • Nick Toscano
“We have had radio silence from the Coalition on its much-touted nuclear policy.”

The real cost of living fix is renewables, not nuclear

Politicians know what brings down household bills. But the Coalition isn’t talking about it.

  • Rebecca Huntley

Energy’s a big part of living costs, but fixing it won’t be cheap

Voters seem permanently obsessed with energy prices, and they’ve figured in most election campaigns for decades. But it’s mainly been smoke and mirrors.

  • Ross Gittins
Peter Garrett warns that Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan will help unleash a “carbon bomb”.

I’ve spent my life fighting nuclear. Here’s what Dutton isn’t telling you about his reactors

This deceptive proposal has all the Trumpian hallmarks: a quasi policy announcement intended to serve sectional interests – in this case fossil fuel giants.

  • Peter Garrett

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