A contest of ideas on energy sources in Australia is “really exciting” as “nuclear’s time has come,” says former Queensland premier Campbell Newman.
“Across the political divide … there are plenty of sensible people who get that we won’t reduce carbon emissions by windmills and solar panels – it just won’t happen, it is too expensive.” Mr Newman told SkyNews Australia host Steve Price.
“The idea of putting in small modular reactors in key locations across the national grid where there were previously coal-fired power stations makes a lot of sense.
“I think Ted O’Brien is on a winner.
“You’ve got card-carrying members of the Labor Party who believe this is the right thing to do – it is only people like Bowen and the Prime Minister that are so dug in in an ideological sense that they won’t actually do what’s right.”