House debates Questions without Notice
Nuclear Energy
Kevin Hogan Page, National Party, Shadow Minister for Trade and Tourism
2:23 pm
My question is to the Acting Prime Minister. Can the Acting Prime Minister confirm whether on 6 June 2024 the Albanese Labor government, through the minister for trade, signed an agreement under the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework for Prosperity that includes a cooperative work program to support the take-up of small modular nuclear reactors?
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Hon. Members:
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Milton Dick Speaker
Order! The member for Durack. Members on my left will cease interjecting. Until the House comes to order, we won't hear anything.
The member for Page is not helping. The Acting Prime Minister has the call.
Richard Marles Corio, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Defence
2:24 pm
They crawl to this topic through every different alleyway, but let me be really clear that what I can absolutely confirm is that this government is not going to be pursuing a civil nuclear industry. We're not going to be doing it, because it would be the single most costly form of electricity that we could provide in this country.