Spring Road Trip
Please see details for my Spring Road Trip below: Monday 20th November, 8:30am - 9:30am: Bli Bli, outside 'White's IGA' on David Low Way, Bli Bli. Tuesday 21st November, 2:30pm - 3:15pm: Brightwater Blvd, near…
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INTERVIEW WITH RICHARD KING- 2HD RADIO
September 19th 2023 Topics: Nuclear Energy, Hunter Offshore Wind Zone, Consultation Process E&OE… Richard King It's already coming up to 12 past seven and joining me now is Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy,…
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INTERVIEW WITH STEVE PRICE, PAUL MURRAY TONIGHT
TED O’BRIEN - SHADOW MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY FEDERAL MEMBER FOR FAIRFAX TRANSCRIPT SKY NEWS, 17 August 2023 Topics: Nuclear energy Steve Price: Are we finally going to have a sensible national discussion…
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INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW CLENNELL, AFTERNOON AGENDA
TED O’BRIEN - SHADOW MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY FEDERAL MEMBER FOR FAIRFAX TRANSCRIPT INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW CLENNELL, AFTERNOON AGENDA SKY NEWS, 15 August 2023 Topics: Energy prices, nuclear energy, CBAM, green tariff, carbon…
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RESPONSE TO MINISTER BOWEN’S SPEECH
Media Statement, by Ted O'Brien I sat through a speech delivered by Climate Change and Energy Minister, Chris Bowen, at the Clean Energy Summit. He used a large portion of his speech taking aim at…
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Bipartisan support for nuclear technology in Finland
The Finnish Greens were the first Greens political party in the world to reverse its decision on nuclear energy and publicly support the zero emissions technology to decarbonise. I recently met Tea Törmänen, from the…
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Interview with 4BC, Neil Breen
I spoke to 4BC's Neil Breen about the Indigenous Voice to Parliament and the 2032 Olympic Games. Listen below. https://youtu.be/QEWNk0lzkCg
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TED O’BRIEN – INTERVIEW WITH NEIL BREEN, 4BC
Neil Breen: It's about the safeguard mechanism. This is all about emissions from Australia's 215 biggest polluters. It piggybacks off a policy that was actually brought in by the coalition in 2016. Labor wants to…
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Press Conference – Labor’s dodgy deal on the safeguard mechanism
Family budgets are set to worsen following a desperate deal between the Albanese Labor Government and the Greens which will see the world’s most punitive carbon tax adopted in Australia. The backroom deal follows months…
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Interview with Tom Connell, Sky News
Ted spoke to Tom Connell from Sky News on 21 Mar on the IPCC Report on climate change and our pathway to net zero. https://youtu.be/1TgRBpnFNiE
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Report Confirms Labor’s Anti-Gas Policies Putting Australian Families at Risk
Today’s report by the Energy Market Operator, AEMO, confirms our worst fears that Labor is driving Australia headlong towards a gas and energy crisis. AEMO’s 2023 Gas Statement of Opportunities identifies Labor’s disastrous market interventions,…
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HIGHER ENERGY PRICES TO HIT OVER WINTER
Electricity prices continue to spiral out of control under Labor, with further increases up to 23.7% to hit Australian households and up to 25.4% for small businesses over winter. Under the draft Default Market Offer,…
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Labor’s broken promises
I spoke to Sky News' Chris Kenny on 2 Mar 2023 on Labor's broken promises - electricity prices and superannuation. https://youtu.be/gcbyopK41Pg
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Learning from International Partners
TED O’BRIEN - SHADOW MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY TRANSCRIPT INTERVIEW WITH ANDREW BOLT SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA 22 February 2022 Topics: Energy prices, learning from international partners, study tour, nuclear Andrew Bolt: Let me…
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Brace for Blackouts
A startling report released today by AEMO has revealed that the likelihood of energy rationing and blackoutshas drastically increased under the Albanese Labor Government. The Australian Energy Market Operator’s updated Electricity Statement of Opportunities (ESOO)…
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Time To Talk Nuclear – Fukushima, Japan
Safety of nuclear power plants was raised as a concern in the recent Time to Talk Nuclear survey I launched with people referring to the Fukushima nuclear incident. I’ve heard many stories about the Fukushima…
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Safeguard Mechanism is a Trojan Horse Carbon Tax
Labor’s carbon tax won’t work, it will weaken the economy and worsen the environment. The economic theory of carbon taxes isn’t the problem; but like many theories, real-world application is where it falls apart. Other…
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Power prices likely to be up 20pc even with government fixes
Published in the Australian Financial Review, written by Mark Ludlow. 15/02/23 Households and business will probably still be slugged with electricity price increases of up to 20 per cent next financial year, despite the federal…
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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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OpEd: Labor Needs A Plan B For Energy Transition
As published in the Australian Financial Review, 6 December 2022 We need renewables to succeed. But the irony is that Labor is setting them up to fail by demonising gas, demolishing coal-fired plants, and rubbishing…
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OpEd: Time For Australia To Have A Conversation About Nuclear Energy
As published in The Australian on 9 December 2022 When Prime Minister Anthony Albanese delivered the keynote address at last Friday night’s Gough Whitlam Dinner, he missed a golden opportunity to tell theLabor Party faithful…
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