Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said Kean,who was also an energy minister for the state’s former Coalition government,was uniquely qualified to lead the independent authority.
Nuclear power is line-ball when it comes to support or opposition,but many people think it’s worth being investigated.
Australians are still paying a price for the energy policy disputes of the past. The nuclear proposal is unlikely to end the argument.
The opposition leader called it “bold” and “visionary”,but his policy seems born of cowardice – namely his refusal to confront divisions on climate in the Coalition.
Many Australians are willing to consider nuclear power even if they are not sure,raising the stakes for Labor and the Coalition in an election fight on energy.
Keating issued his statement the same day that Nationals leader David Littleproud said teal MPs were “dripping with self-righteous sanctimony”.
The Coalition’s embrace of nuclear power may be a sign of surrender in teal-town. Pity the moderate candidates suffering the progressive fallout.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is spruiking the benefits of nuclear energy,but one of his claims has left a bad taste in experts’ mouths.
One of Australia’s foremost voices on energy futures says doing anything other than pursuing renewables with enthusiasm right now is not paying attention to what’s going on.
Commentators have widely written off the opposition leader as awful. Voters,it seems,are warming to him.
Attacking the prime minister in strikingly personal terms,the opposition leader vowed to override premiers opposed to nuclear power plants in their states.