
National Party leader David Littleproud has indicated his senate colleague, Queensland LNP senator Matt Canavan had not moved in concert with his party on nuclear energy - but removing the ban was nonetheless the Party's position.
Speaking with Flow on Monday after SA Liberal senator Alex Antic confirmed he would co-sponsor senator Canavan's bill to remove a ban on nuclear energy in Australia, Mr Littleproud said in response to the question whether the party had a position on removing the ban:
"That is the National Party's position and Matt's run off on his own, the Nationals were the ones that led that when I wrote to the Prime Minister. And this isn't big nuclear power plants, this is about a conversation of bringing the population with us. We just talked about transmission lines - the new emerging technology, the small scale modular, they're very small and portable and you can plug them in to where coal-fired power stations are now. So you don't need transmission lines ..."
Hear the full interview on the Flow podcast player:
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