Nationals senator questions his own party’s policy, saying ‘all sides of politics are deciding their energy based on focus group’
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Nationals senator Matt Canavan has doubled down on concerns about the Coalition’s nuclear power plan, saying attempting to run a modern economy through nuclear or renewable power was “equally unachievable” after a video showed him claiming his colleagues are “not serious” about the idea.
In a podcast interview from August uncovered by the ABC, Canavan claimed the Coalition was backing nuclear power “because it fixes a political issue for us”.
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