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. Please include your home address and telephone number. No attachments, please include your letter in the body of the email.If Australian farmers decided to sell all their produce overseas because they could get higher prices there would be riots in the street. Yet we allow most of our gas to be exported with hardly a whimper . It does not make sense. Gas is still essential for many of our industries to produce goods and food for our own consumption.
Australia’s best nuclear pathway is to continue to explore for, mine and export uranium to supply the countries whose nuclear power industries are limiting the emissions that are causing the climate crisis. Fortunately, there is a national bipartisan political consensus to do just that.David Littleproud, now wishing to elevate his political standing, calls for a “mature conversation” with the Australian people on nuclear energy.
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