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Littleproud says opposition will rely on gas to bring down energy prices
The Nationals leader, David Littleproud, has followed Katy Gallagher in the RN Breakfast studio.
Our short term solution is more gas, and you can do that in 12 to 18 months. You can get that pressure into the grid. In the medium term, it’s about transitioning into nuclear energy.
We’re going to make sure that we streamline the bureaucracy to be able to achieve that [fast-tracking] and make sure that we can cut down those times, because that gives investment confidence.
I think the public service is roughly the right size. Now, there’s always ons and offs and programs that stop and all that sort of stuff, but the public service as a proportion of population is smaller now than it was in 2006, so there is absolutely no evidence to say that it’s, you know, grown out of pace with the work that it needs to do.
What we’re trying to do is support households as we rebuild, essentially, the energy electricity grid to make sure it can get more renewables in, because we know that’s the cheapest form of energy. So we are trying to balance, you know, those costs households are getting with the work that needs to be done and the investments that need to be done.
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