With an election due by May, Australia’s climate war is raging again. Climate and energy will be major battlegrounds as Opposition Leader Peter Dutton leads a brash, nuclear-powered campaign against the Albanese government’s ambitious renewables agenda.
Dutton’s nuclear energy plan – his only fully detailed, major policy released so far – raises more questions than it answers. States have refused to allow reactors in their jurisdictions, and the CSIRO finds nuclear more expensive than wind or solar.
The government and opposition will compete in the election campaign over their plans for renewable and nuclear energy. Credit: Bloomberg
Meanwhile, the government’s 2022 election promise to cut electricity bills by $275 a year went awry when a global energy crunch raised fuel costs and boosted average household bills to about $1600. Now, it must answer for patchy delivery of its bold plan to rapidly swap fossil fuels for renewables in the electricity grid.
The major parties will clash in five key battles, each with the cost of living at their core.
Renewables Experts say the government’s key measure to cut power bills is not on track. They say its renewables rollout is behind schedule to reach its 82 per cent clean energy target by 2030.
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The opposition will try to cast Australia as a global outlier focused solely
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