Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Housing and Urban Development) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. My question goes to the original point again. Minister, will you now indicate to the Senate whether or not your expert opinion on the viability of nuclear power has altered from 100 years to 10 or 15 years? Is the minister aware that the Treasurer has said that he does not support paying subsidies to nuclear power plants to make them viable? Will the minister also rule out using subsidies to make power plants viable in Australia? Why should taxpayers have to pay the massive costs of the Prime Minister’s ideological obsession with nuclear power?