“What I’ve done as leader is be the first leader to set a clear pathway for a long held view around our pathway for net zero, which is around the new emerging technology of small-scale modular nuclear which is zero emissions,” he told Sky News Australia.
“That’s the pathway that I took as soon as I became leader, I was the first one to actually write to the Prime Minister to ask for a national energy forum, to actually put it on the table, to have that conversation. “Proudly I was able to help Peter Dutton get his team – Peter Dutton took the courageous step to get the Liberals across the line – many said ‘why haven’t we done nuclear before we’ve been in government for nine years’, there were elements within the Liberal Party that needed to get comfort with it.”