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Live news updates: Dutton says he is ‘not afraid’ to discuss nuclear power in Australia; Albanese in Jakarta
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Anthony Albanese vows to strengthen Australia’s ties on official Indonesia visit‘Shocking’ rate of sexual abuse of aged care residents barely changed since royal commissionGet our free news app; get our morning email briefingSimilarly, on the Indigenous voice to parliament, Dutton said the Coalition is “very open to the discussion and what the government has to say”.
In principle, do we support anything that’s going to improve the situation of Indigenous Australians? Absolutely.
In Ted O’Brien we have someone with an exceptional background, a very considered person, a great communicator. And he did a report ... when he was on the backbench in the last parliament on nuclear energy. He had a particular focus on the latest generation, the small modular nuclear generation which can power up to 100,000 houses. So I’m not afraid to have a discussion on nuclear. If we want to have a legitimate emissions reduction, if we want to lower emissions reduction, that’s exactly the path president Macron has embarked on in France, it’s what prime minister Johnson is talking about in the United Kingdom ... I don’t think we should be afraid to talk about any technology that’s going to have the ability to reduce emissions and electricity prices. That’s something we can consider in time. I don’t think we should rule things out simply because it’s unfashionable to talk about them.
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