Albanese backs Queensland premier’s opposition to nuclear power as early voting in state election opens

Anthony Albanese exits a tram with Steven Miles on the Gold Coast on Monday as the prime minister joins Queensland’s premier in campaigning for the state election. Photograph: Dave Hunt/AAP

Anthony Albanese has backed Steven Miles’s opposition to nuclear power while joining the Queensland premier on the first day of pre-poll voting in the state election.

At a joint press conference in the Gold Coast on Monday, the prime minister was asked about Miles’s plan to hold a plebiscite on nuclear if Labor wins this month’s poll.