Australia’s Nuclear Moment - Time to End the Renewable Delusion
We sit on the world’s largest uranium reserves, yet Labor would rather blackouts than build the reactors that could power our future.
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Labor’s reckless energy agenda is driving Australia toward blackouts, soaring bills and fragile energy security.
Billions are being wasted on unreliable wind and solar projects that require costly transmission lines and fail when the sun doesn’t shine or the wind doesn’t blow.
Nuclear energy offers the solution, reliable, affordable, zero emissions base load power that uses existing coal station sites and infrastructure ie. We do not need new poles or wires.
Australia is being left behind, despite holding the world’s largest uranium reserves while nations like France, Egypt and even Bangladesh embrace nuclear.
The time for common sense is now, end the nuclear moratorium, keep coal in the system until reactors are online and secure Australia’s energy future. Or just end Net Zero and keep using coal, that also works!
Australia is being frog marched toward blackouts, skyrocketing bills, and economic fragility under the Albanese Labor government’s reckless pursuit of so called renewable energy.
This is not conjecture.
Consumers are already struggling to pay power bills; blackouts are now routinely threatened, and consumers have been offered to be paid not to use electricity during peak periods.
This is the new normal, and it is not becoming of a first world nation.
Meanwhile the government blindly presses on, spending billions on an enormous spider web of power lines connecting scattered wind and solar projects that are inefficient, unreliable, and environmentally ruinous.
What is renewable about solar panels that need to be replaced every couple of decades?
The only thing renewable about these things is the cost.
The truly maddening part is that it doesn’t have to be this way.
The recently released Frontier Economics Report pointed to a better path, one in which nuclear energy delivers reliable, affordable power, while safeguarding our energy security and economic future.
The report made it obvious that nuclear energy changes everything.
Nuclear reactors built on the site of existing coal stations could plug into existing grid infrastructure and avoid the need for intrusive and costly transmission overhauls.
The result would be clean continuous baseload power with the lowest possible emissions. Something Labor and their unofficial coalition partner the Greens claim that they want.
And despite the Labor Party’s infantile scare campaign, nuclear power is a proven, stable, and safe solution that has been used around the world for decades.
While government ministers post memes of three eyed fish in a childish and frankly embarrassing attempt to scare Australians, our power bills are rising and our energy security is being compromised.
Labor’s cult like devotion to wind and sunbeams leaves Australia dangerously exposed.
Something as simple as a calm day or - God forbid - night time, is enough to shut down energy production.
The last thing we can afford to compromise at a time of increasing instability throughout the Pacific is our energy independence.
Nuclear will not only strengthen our domestic supply but also balance the geopolitical equation in our region.
We are sitting on the world’s largest uranium reserve - an extraordinary asset that other nations are not hesitating to use to power their industries and stabilise their economies.
Yet, instead of capitalising on this natural advantage, we ship it offshore for others to use, while condemning each other for using air condition and dishwashers during extreme weather, which the government now defines as any day over 30 degrees.
Older readers, or anyone with a basic level of commonsense, will remember such days as ‘Summer’.
Did I mention that all of this is madness?
Forget the government’s promise that Australia will become a ‘renewable energy superpower’. They can’t even deliver a $275 electricity bill reduction. If it wasn’t so serious it would be hilarious.
A domestic nuclear industry would place us at the forefront of the global energy supply chain, creating thousands of well paid, skilled jobs while unlocking enormous economic opportunities, particularly in regional Australia.
Any adult knows this. If only there were some adults in the Federal Labor caucus.
The Coalition’s plan to keep coal in the system until nuclear energy comes online should be entirely uncontroversial. If it was up to me, we would be approving the construction of brand new coal fired power stations. We are blessed with one of the world’s largest coal reserves and coal fired power is cheap, reliable and safe.
Labor is already extending the life of coal plants to avoid blackouts and prevent further price shocks - an awkward confession that their own energy plan is about as successful as Australia’s effort in Olympic break dancing.
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen’s insistence on ripping out reliable energy sources before we have a proven replacement is worse than reckless, it’s patently stupid. He is putting households, industries, and our national security at unnecessary risk.
Meanwhile, other nations are showing us what’s possible. Even Egypt. Bangladesh and Pakistan are building or have built nuclear power stations but we are supposed to believe we cannot?
At COP29, I witnessed firsthand how countries are embracing nuclear energy to guarantee their own energy security, strengthen their manufacturing sectors, and protect their economies.
France for example, enjoys reliable, affordable electricity thanks to its long standing investment in nuclear power.
Meanwhile Australia - blessed with the resources and expertise to lead – is being left behind, held hostage by renewable energy cultists who refuse to acknowledge reality.
The Frontier Economics Report makes the case clear: nuclear energy is cheaper, smarter, and more secure than anything Minister Chris Bowen proposes.
Nuclear energy reduces costs, avoids the enormous expense of new transmission lines, and guarantees reliable power to support an advanced economy.
The alternative is a continuing decline in our living standards. Something this government seems intent upon producing.
The time for common sense has come. We must move beyond the outdated thinking of Labor and the fanaticism of the Greens.
We must end Australia’s moratorium on nuclear power. Our future depends on it.
Senator Ralph Babet.
United Australia Party.
We currently have the worst government in living memory. They are destroying this country and hurting the people. They need a wake up call. Australia needs nuclear power. That is a definite no brainer.
We should stick with coal because "CO2-warming" has always, from the get-go, been extreme-left propaganda.
Here's the basic physics people should know on CO2 and the "catastrophic man-made global warming" narrative.
CO2 absorbs outgoing longwave infrared radiation (heat) as photons at 14.8 microns wavelength (Planck’s Law).
The temperature of absorption at 14.8 microns is -80 degrees Celsius (Wien’s Displacement Law), which is found in the lower stratosphere, well above the troposphere where weather exists.
Minus 80 degrees Celsius is 95 degrees lower than average surface temperature.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics proves heat doesn’t flow from cold zones to hotter zones.
CO2 cannot “trap heat.” It can only delay outgoing heat momentarily so high up in the atmosphere it’s irrelevant.
Atmospheric CO2 is contingent upon seawater temperature (Henry’s Law).
Only the sun has the energy to heat 1.335 billion cubic kilometres of water.
To control Earth’s climate, you must control the sun.
The “climate debate” is now and always has been political and anti-scientific.