Nuclear energy
‘Fork in the road’: How a failed nuclear plot locked in Australia’s renewable future
Australians have voted for something that will outlive the next election: the guaranteed switch from coal to renewable energy.
- Nick Toscano
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- Opinion
- Editorial
Sussan Ley was compared with the Liz Truss lettuce, but it’s David Littleproud who’s reduced to clear
Whether the federal opposition is a restumped Coalition, a reimagined Liberal Party or some new configuration, it won’t have much time to get its house in order.
- The Age's View
- Analysis
- Sussan Ley
The nuclear debate that blew apart the Coalition
Nationals leader David Littleproud’s nuclear ultimatum to the Liberals sparked a chain reaction that caused a Coalition meltdown.
- Mike Foley
- Analysis
- Paris Agreement
The surprise incentive that could keep Nationals on board with net zero
The Liberals and Nationals are weighing their positions on both nuclear energy and climate action, but they can’t have one without the other.
- Mike Foley
- Opinion
- Peter Dutton
If the Coalition sticks with nuclear, the fallout will be toxic
Despite well-funded campaigns against renewables, Australians overwhelmingly rejected nuclear power. The Coalition must take the hint.
- Rebecca Huntley
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
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
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
- Opinion
- Energy security
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
‘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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