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Bowen accuses Coalition of ‘mathematical gymnastics’ to made ‘vague’ nuclear costs add up

The climate change and energy minister, Chris Bowen, says that the Coalition would have had to do some “mathematical gymnastics” to make its “vague” nuclear costings add up.

We’ll go through the details today. I don’t believe they have released it to the ABC or the ALP, funnily enough, but clearly they had to do some mathematical gymnastics to make this in any vague way add up. They have even downgraded their costings of renewable energy by around $30bn over the last couple of weeks. If that policy didn’t last pass an election, why would the nuclear costings last any longer?