Peter Dutton’s nuclear plan is off in the never-never, but our power bills and emissions pledge are not | Lenore Taylor

The nuclear plan handily leapfrogs the next 10 years - when a Dutton government might actually hold office - a critical time for emissions reduction

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I don't often agree with Matt Canavan on matters to do with global heating. But when the senator labelled the Coalition's nuclear plan a political fix" last year, I think he was speaking the truth.

For 15 gruelling years the Coalition has been trying to distract a voting public, ever more aware of the climate crisis, from its inability to get a credible climate and energy policy past the climate sceptics and do-nothing-much-to-reduce-emissions exponents in its own ranks (including the Queensland senator).

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