‘Long held denialism’: Paul Keating launches stinging attack on Coalition’s nuclear power push

Paul Keating has lashed the Coalition’s plan to build seven nuclear power plants if it wins the next federal election. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

Paul Keating has launched a broadside at Peter Dutton’s nuclear policy, accusing him of “seeking to camouflage” the Coalition’s “long held denialism in an industrial fantasy”.

The former Labor prime minister said in a statement the plan for seven nuclear power plants amounted to “resort to the most dangerous and expensive energy source on the face of the earth”.