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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Jordyn Beazley

Peter Dutton vows to override state nuclear bans as he steps up attack on PM

Australian opposition leader Peter Dutton
Peter Dutton has used an address to the federal Liberal party council in Sydney to spruik his controversial nuclear energy plan. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi/AAP

Peter Dutton has vowed a Coalition government would override the states’ legislated ban on nuclear power, telling party officials on Saturday that state premiers “won’t stop us”.

The opposition leader made the comments in an address to the federal Liberal party council in Sydney, where he escalated his attacks on Anthony Albanese. He called the prime minister a “fraud” and a “child in a man’s body” that is “still captured in his university years”.

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