Peter Dutton turned personal in a key address to the Liberal party faithful in Sydney. The Opposition Leader used his speech to attack the Prime Minister’s character, while talking up the Coalition’s nuclear energy policy. He insists the plan will cost a fraction of the government’s renewables strategy, but still hasn’t put a price tag on his own policy.
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00:00It was a message delivered to the Liberal Party faithful, but aimed squarely at the
00:11voters of Australia.
00:13The next election will be a time for choosing, but the battle of ideas has already begun.
00:18Peter Dutton says he believes he can win the next election, and laid out the key battlegrounds
00:23he wants to fight it on, including cost of living, housing and immigration.
00:27Labor has created a housing crisis by opening up the floodgates, without doing the proper
00:32planning and investment into infrastructure.
00:34There was much rhetoric, but no new detail about the policy he's gambling his political
00:38future on, nuclear energy.
00:41We will talk more about the economic and environmental benefit to our country as a result of our
00:47plan.
00:48We will answer people's questions, we will alleviate concerns.
00:50Mr Dutton could have used today to answer any number of questions that are yet to be
00:54answered about his policy.
00:56He could have talked about how much it will cost.
00:59He could have talked about what it will do to bills.
01:02He could have talked about exactly how much energy they plan to generate through nuclear.
01:06Although the last Prime Minister to try to go nuclear gave Mr Dutton's plan a ringing
01:10endorsement.
01:12That announcement this week had the hallmarks of thought, research and most of all political
01:18courage.
01:19Mr Dutton says he's confident his plan will be more affordable than the government's renewable
01:23energy policy.
01:25Our plan will cost a fraction of the government's $1.3 trillion plan.
01:29I figure not even the Prime Minister's cricket team of Labor spin doctors can conceal.
01:34The government says it's Mr Dutton who's spinning the numbers.
01:38Mr Dutton really should make clear where these numbers come from.
01:42We listen to the experts.
01:43The Australian energy market operator has costed what it will take to get us to 2050
01:48and the number they've come up with is $121 billion.
01:51In a potential glimpse of some of the tactics the Coalition may be considering using during
01:55the election campaign, the opposition leader and his deputy also wrapped up their attacks
02:00on the character of the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese.
02:03He's a man with a mind still captured in his university years.
02:08He's a child in a man's body.
02:10We have a liar in the lodge and you cannot trust anything he says.
02:15Mr Dutton may wish to resort to personal attack but it is no substitute for actual policy.
02:21If today is any indication, the tone of the debate could be about to get much more personal.