Peter Dutton misses deadline to hand over Manus Paladin document – politics live

The Senate’s attempt to put a spotlight on the Manus Island Paladin contract has been denied by Peter Dutton. All the day’s events, live

Peter Dutton’s letter to the Senate regarding the Paladin document request pic.twitter.com/cm1p6oCL5D

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After the Angus Taylor hour yesterday, nuclear power is once again floating around.

There is a growing number of Coalition backbenchers pushing for an inquiry into nuclear power, being led by the Queensland contingent. Keith Pitt is a particularly passionate advocate.

The only thing we have said, let us be clear about it, we want lower electricity prices. We want reliability. We want people to turn lights on and his crazy renewable targets doubling power prices that Labor is proposing …

I don’t believe it is and the government has had a moratorium. Bob Hawke was the last letter to advocate, and he did strongly, for nuclear. The government’s position has been made clear, we are not closed to to debates. People can express their views but the government’s perspective is to get prices down and make sure people can turn lights on.

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