Senate debates
Monday, 1 July 2024
Questions without Notice
Cost of Living
2:29 pm
Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) | Hansard source
I can think of one big risky proposal that springs to mind that might be uncosted, Senator Walsh: a big, risky nuclear reactor plan, with reactors all across the country—many reactors on one site. They came out with a big launch, and guess what? They're not costed. Don't you know how much it's costing? Have you not done the work? Or have you done the work, and you don't want to tell everybody what it costs? Maybe that's it. These nuclear reactors are going to all the states. It's uncosted, with no idea how to deliver it, no understanding of the technology and no timeframe—other than it's off in the never-never. There's no 2030 target. If Senator Canavan has anything to do with it, there'll be no 2050 target either. There's no idea for what to do with the waste and no plan for right now, and they're not being clear about what it's going to cost to people's bills.
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