Article 4GGA9 'Crackpot stuff': Coalition MPs' call for nuclear power inquiry rejected by Greens

'Crackpot stuff': Coalition MPs' call for nuclear power inquiry rejected by Greens

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Sarah Martin Chief political correspondent
from Environment | The Guardian on (#4GGA9)

Sarah Hanson-Young says the Nationals who have raised nuclear energy are 'lunatic cowboys'

The Greens have labelled Coalition MPs pushing for an inquiry into nuclear power as "lunatic cowboys", pledging to block any move to overturn Australia's nuclear ban in the Senate.

As conservative MPs move to establish a Senate inquiry into nuclear power when parliament returns next month, the Greens senator Sarah Hanson-Young has invited the former Nationals leader Barnaby Joyce to debate her in the "town he thinks it should be built".

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