Victorian Liberal leader distances state party from Peter Dutton’s nuclear proposal: ‘Our focus is gas’

Exclusive: Brad Battin says he had a conversation with the federal opposition leader about the language' he would use about plans to build a nuclear reactor in eastern Victoria

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The Victorian opposition leader says he discussed the language he would use to distance the state party from the federal Coalition's campaign to build a nuclear reactor in the Latrobe Valley, telling Peter Dutton it's your campaign".

The Loy Yang coal-fired power station in the Latrobe Valley east of Melbourne is one of seven proposed sites for the federal Coalition's proposal to build nuclear reactors, the centrepiece energy policy the federal Liberal leader will be taking to the 3 May poll.

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