Address to the House of Representatives, Statements by Members - Nuclear Energy

Thursday 30 May 2024

In exciting news, I can inform the House that future sites for nuclear reactors could possibly include any Australian town or suburb called Springfield. That includes Springfield, Queensland—sorry, Member for Blair; Springfield, New South Wales—sorry, Member for Robertson; Springfield, South Australia—sorry, Member for Boothby; Springfield, Tasmania—sorry, Member for Bass; and Springfield, Victoria—sorry, Member for McEwen.

We know that Springfield in The Simpsons was a fiction, but we know that the opposition's nuclear policy is a complete fantasy. As the Minister for Climate Change and Energy said, they haven't told us where these power plants would go, when they would be built, how they would build them, what they would cost or who would pay for them, and they certainly haven't gone into the communities that they propose to use as sites for their power plants and talked to them directly about it. While this government is committed to a Future Made in Australia, the opposition are committed to a future made in fiction.