Rising Tide climate activists disrupted Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s speech at the Lowy Institute. They held up a banner reading: “NUCLEAR LIES COST US ALL”.
Zack Schofield and Nigel Cox from Rising Tide unfurled the banner and asked Dutton: “Why are you lying to the Australian people?”
Federal Police and security escorted them out of the building.
“The Coalition’s scheme to force nuclear into Australia’s energy grid is going to cost $600 billion to the taxpayer, add up to $1,200 to people’s energy bills and produce 1.6 billion tonnes of climate pollution by 2050,” Schofield said.
“This idea is so colossally dumb that we’re now even seeing Liberal stalwarts campaigning against their own party.”
Schofield said ex-tropical cyclone Alfred showed the devastating impact of the climate crisis is already here. “We cannot afford more distraction and delay with absolute potato policies like nuclear.”