Time to Talk Nuclear – Hiroshima
If we are to consider the possibility of including advanced nuclear technology as part of Australia's future energy mix we must first confront its percieved challenges as well as its opportunities. Nowhere represents Japan's complicated…
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AUSTRALIANS SLUGGED WITH ANOTHER GAS PRICE SPIKE
Labor’s disastrous eleventh-hourenergy intervention has failed to reduce skyrocketing power prices with many Australians today copping a massive increase to their gas bill of up to $1,000 per year. The price spikes, of 26 percent…
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AUKUS offers scope for nuclear energy debate: opposition
Originally published in the Australian Financial Review, 30 January 2023 Washington | The AUKUS military pact between Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom should be used to kick-start a debate on nuclear energy in Australia, federal…
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Australian-American Leadership Dialogue
https://youtu.be/AplASC_c070 I attended the 2023 Australian-American Leadership Dialogue in San Francisco this week where we are discussing some of the largest geo-strategic, political and economic issues.
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Nation To Pay for Frankenstein Policy
As published in The Australian online (Politics Now), 16 January 2023 Opposition energy spokesman Ted O'Brien says Australian families and businesses will pick up the bill for the Albanese government's gas price caps, dubbing the…
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OPED: Nuclear energy? Who better to ask than Japan, whose history is inextricably linked to it
As published in The Australian, 11/1/23 On my first visit to Japan as an impressionable 14 year old, my mother gifted me a book on Akashi Nagai, a physician who survived the atomic bombing of…
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NOTHING SAFE ABOUT LABOR’S SAFEGUARD MECHANISM
Amidst severe economic headwinds and a crippling energy crisis, the Albanese Labor Government is set to make life harder for Australian businesses and households with drastic changes to the ‘Safeguard Mechanism’. There’s nothing safe…
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Coalition Welcomes Chubb Review
TED O’BRIEN MPSHADOW MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGYMEMBER FOR FAIRFAXMEDIA STATEMENT 9 December 2022 COALITION WELCOMES CHUBB REVIEW The Coalition welcomes the release of the independent review of the Australian Carbon Credit Units (ACCU)…
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Australians Talk Nuclear – What Do They Think?
TED O’BRIEN MP SHADOW MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY MEMBER FOR FAIRFAX MEDIA RELEASE 9 December 2022 Australians recognise nuclear as a cheap, clean and reliable source of energy but there are concerns about…
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