Afternoon Update: Coalition’s nuclear ‘fantasy’; Cape York’s Unesco dream; and Ash Barty’s tennis return

Anthony Albanese has labelled the Coalition’s claims of reducing energy bills via nuclear power a ‘fantasy’. Photograph: Dean Lewins/AAP

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As the federal Coalition begins its soft-sell on nuclear energy, the government has muscled up to push back, with Anthony Albanese labelling the Coalition’s claims of reducing energy bills via nuclear power a “fantasy”.