The Coalition is pushing an atomic energy campaign as state LNP counterparts downplay it.Advertisement
And what better ammunition to then allow your state parliamentary party mate to back such a plan than it not turning voters away in your home state at back-to-back elections. However, this came in the same Saturday speech in which the federal Opposition Leader said he would work respectfully and collaboratively with state premiers, but did not answer to them.These are essentially hypothetical threats about a hypothetical policy: the Coalition can’t or won’t answer even how much electricity it would create without work from a proposed nuclear agency.
In doing so, the opposition dismisses its own supporters who back the present pitch for some number of nuclear reactors at some point beyond the mid-2030s.A new poll for this masthead shows support for nuclear power from most Coalition voters. Of those backing Labor or the Greens, about half supported nuclear or were open to it, withfound support for nuclear power sat at 64 per cent in Brisbane, slightly higher than communities near the two proposed state-owned Queensland sites.