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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Media Release – Power prices and blackouts will increase under Labor’s disgraceful energy deal
THE HON ANGUS TAYLOR MP - SHADOW TREASURER SENATOR SUSAN MCDONALD - SHADOW MINISTER FOR RESOURCES TED O’BRIEN MP - SHADOW MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY MEDIA RELEASE Thursday, 15 December 2022 POWER PRICES AND BLACKOUTS WILL…
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Labor’s energy policy on the run
The passing of the Government's energy legislation this week is bad policy. Even the Greens admitted it wont decrease your energy bills. The Coalition supports the parts of the package that provide direct relief to…
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LABOR DELIVER HOLLOW ENERGY DEAL
After months of inaction and delay, the Albanese Labor Government has failed to deliver any meaningful relief for millions of Australian households and businesses facing skyrocketing energy bills. Labor promised on 97 occasions prior to…
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LABOR KILLS THE CAPACITY MECHANISM
The Albanese Labor Government is doing all it can to ensure the lights will go out and today’s energy ministers meeting has turned the dimmer switch one dial further by killing the ‘capacity mechanism’. To…
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United Nations Loss-and-Damage Fund
The Government has committed Australia to the United Nations' 'loss and damage' fund without providing any details on what it will cost Australians or how it will be implemented. This week, I called on the…
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Annual Climate Change Statement
A unique feature of any reflection on climate change in the context of Australia expressed at this very moment, with consideration of the prior 12-month period, is that it straddles two governments and therefore tells…
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TIME TO TALK NUCLEAR
The Australian people are being invited to centre stage for a national conversation on nuclear energy, dubbed ‘Time to Talk Nuclear.’ “It’s time to talk nuclear,” said Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy…
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PLANTING TREES TO HONOUR THE QUEEN’S JUBILEE
Students at Coolum State School will remember Her Majesty’s seventy years of service for years to come, thanks to a Federal Government grant to plant native trees on its campus. Federal Member for Fairfax, Ted…
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Remembering Don Moffatt
https://youtu.be/tc9NRCQx0zY I was enormously fortunate to forge a very good personal friendship with Don Moffatt. Don, for me, was a quintessential Australian mate. He would be the first to take the mickey out of you;…
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Environment, Climate Change and Energy Budget Expenditure
https://youtu.be/XJ6PET9bq2s I would like to think that all Australians and, indeed, all parliamentarians believe that we should have a cleaner future, one in which Australia remains a prosperous, high-wealth country and is strong and fiercely…
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Interview with Laura Jayes, AM Agenda
TED O’BRIEN - SHADOW MINISTER FOR CLIMATE CHANGE AND ENERGY TRANSCRIPT INTERVIEW WITH LAURA JAYES, AM AGENDA Sky News Wednesday, 23 November 2022 Topics: Domestic violence, energy crisis, skyrocketing power prices, balanced energy transition Laura…
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Veteran Wellbeing Grants Program now OPEN
Applications are now open for the Veteran Wellbeing Grants Program. This program provides small grants (up to $50,000) and large grants (from $50,001 to $150,000) for projects and services to support members of the veteran…
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LABOR AT WAR WITH ITSELF ON ENERGY AS AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURERS FACE RUIN
Reports today that the ACCC has confirmed Australian manufacturers are being offered gas contracts for 2023 at rates up to five times the levels a year ago are deeply concerning. While Australian manufacturers face the…
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The lack of a government plan to manage sky rocketing energy prices in Australia
Today, I formally submitted a matter of public importance in Parliament - 'The lack of a government plan to manage sky rocketing energy prices in Australia'. The Labor Government must be held to account on…
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Labor’s flawed modelling and broken promises
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=750YRMrSzjc&t
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Virtual Reality revolutionises training at Maroochydore social enterprise
The Virtual Reality (VR) revolution has come to a Maroochydore social enterprise and it’s already a hit for employees with disability who will use the powerful training tool to upskill. Forty-eight Endeavour Foundation Maroochydore employees…
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Labor’s broken promises on electricity prices
This week's budget has confirmed something that the Prime Minister has not had the courage to say himself—that is, the Labor Party has broken a promise, a very big promise. We know that the budget…
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Fairfax Annual Report 2021/22
I am pleased to present my 2021/22 Annual Report for Fairfax. The 2021/22 Financial Year saw continued record investment in infrastructure and support for businesses recovering from the pandemic and widespread flooding. To read my…
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