Nuclear Plan Costings Will Come ‘At Our Choosing’, Says Dutton

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s highly anticipated speech on the Coalition’s nuclear energy plans did not deliver a crucial detail: the expected budget. Despite repeated government pressure on the cost question, Dutton said the Coalition’s nuclear plan would cost “a fraction” of the Albanese government’s $1.3 trillion energy transition scheme. “I can guarantee you this: our nuclear plan will cost a fraction of the Government’s reckless $1.3 trillion plan, with its 28,000 kilometres of new transmission lines ripping up agricultural land and national parks,” Dutton stated before the Committee for Economic Development Australia (CEDA) in Sydney on Sept. 23. Dutton acknowledged that the plan will require a significant upfront cost and promised to release the full costings “at a time of our choosing,” as he criticised Labor for misleading Australians with their previous energy modelling....