By Mike Foley

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However, Tehan said the Coalition plans to do more than just lifting the legislative ban on the technology, promoting the need to build nuclear plants to help lower greenhouse emissions from the electricity and supplement intermittent supplies of renewable energy.

“I have no doubt that my colleagues, like I do, see very much a future for nuclear as part of our energy mix here in Australia,” he said.

Cook MP Simon Kennedy, who represents one of the Liberal’s handful of remaining metropolitan seats in southern Sydney, has urged the Coalition to stick with its pledge to hit net zero emissions by 2050 to appeal to urban voters and backed Tehan’s move.

“Australians deserve cheaper, more reliable, lower-emissions energy — but after three years of Labor prices are up 40 per cent and emissions aren’t dropping. We’re focused on practical solutions like nuclear that deliver all three,” Kennedy said on Thursday.