☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑💻<p>Day twelve cont ☢️🏭</p><p>“Coalition sources on Wednesday told The AFR that while the party would honour the NRF’s existing commitments if elected on May 3, the remaining funds would be put to other uses, including possibly the Coalition’s plans to build seven <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/NuclearPower" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPower</span></a> plants across the country.</p><p>The Coalition will not scrap or exit existing <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/NRF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NRF</span></a> (National Reconstruction Fund) agreements over fears that would create sovereign risk, whereby investors avoid making investments in Australia due to uncertainty about government decision-making.”</p><p>…</p><p>“While the Coalition has opposed Labor’s off-budget funds, Dutton has said a future Coalition government would finance its taxpayer-funded nuclear power plants through a similar <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/investment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>investment</span></a> vehicle.</p><p>Modelling by <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/FrontierEconomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FrontierEconomics</span></a> commissioned by the Coalition estimates the opposition’s energy plan would cost $331 billion to 2050, of which the taxpayer-funded construction of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/NuclearPlants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NuclearPlants</span></a> would be a large component..”</p><p>There you go, $331B tax payer funded ‘never never’ nuclear technology ☢️ for power generation. 🤪</p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Liberal</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LNP</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Labor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Labor</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/manufacturing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>manufacturing</span></a> <<a href="https://archive.md/FLmBy" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.md/FLmBy</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>> / <<a href="https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/coalition-to-reprioritise-14-5b-from-labor-s-manufacturing-fund-20250409-p5lqck" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">afr.com/politics/federal/coali</span><span class="invisible">tion-to-reprioritise-14-5b-from-labor-s-manufacturing-fund-20250409-p5lqck</span></a>> (paywall)</p>