The Coalition’s nuclear energy plan takes a sharp turn away from a cheaper, cleaner future | Simon Holmes à Court

After 22 failed energy policies, the Coalition is being guided by a roadmap to higher bills and higher emissions

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On the front cover of Frontier Economics' costings of the Coalition's nuclear policy is a stock photo entitled fork in road, implying that we're at some kind of juncture where we must decide between a nuclear or renewables path.

In 1969 John Gorton's Liberal government chose the nuclear path with the construction of the Jervis Bay nuclear power plant project. As Gorton later said, We were interested in this thing because it could provide electricity to everybody and it could, if you decided later on, it could make an atomic bomb."