Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie has unleashed on Peter Dutton’s nuclear ambitions, blasting it as a poorly thought-out plan he pulled “out of his clacker”. The firebrand politician took aim over a lack of detail over nuclear waste, with Senator Lambie also questioning whether Australia has the experts to execute the project, adding that Australian specialists were “miles behind”. While Senator Lambie flagged she was open to considering a removal of a federal prohibition on nuclear power, she didn’t hold “much hope” Mr Dutton’s plan would eventuate, she told Today.
“I don’t know what planet he’s on, they’ve got no plan, and let’s face it, they don’t have a plan,” she said. Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. “He’s just come out and pull this out of his clacker, so we’re going nuclear now? Come on.
“You cannot sell a product unless you have a plan of attack, and he has no plan.” Issues around storing nuclear waste are another tension point. Senator Lambie pointed to the Coalition’s fumbled plans to build a low-level nuclear waste dump in South Australia’s regional Kimba area that were abandoned by the Albanese government following a Federal Court ruling.
“They had nine years just to find somewhere to put low-level waste and they blew that out of their backside,” she said. “You want to actually wait for them to do nuclear in the next 10, 15 years ..
. good luck with that, honestl.
