00:00It was a message delivered to the Liberal Party faithful, but aimed squarely at the
00:11voters of Australia.
00:13The next election will be a time for choosing, but the battle of ideas has already begun.
00:18Peter Dutton says he believes he can win the next election, and laid out the key battlegrounds
00:23he wants to fight it on, including cost of living, housing and immigration.
00:27Labor has created a housing crisis by opening up the floodgates, without doing the proper
00:32planning and investment into infrastructure.
00:34There was much rhetoric, but no new detail about the policy he's gambling his political
00:38future on, nuclear energy.
00:41We will talk more about the economic and environmental benefit to our country as a result of our
00:47plan.
00:48We will answer people's questions, we will alleviate concerns.
00:50Mr Dutton could have used today to answer any number of questions that are yet to be
00:54answered about his policy.
00:56He could have talked about how much it will cost.
00:59He could have talked about what it will do to bills.
01:02He could have talked about exactly how much energy they plan to generate through nuclear.
01:06Although the last Prime Minister to try to go nuclear gave Mr Dutton's plan a ringing
01:10endorsement.
01:12That announcement this week had the hallmarks of thought, research and most of all political
01:18courage.
01:19Mr Dutton says he's confident his plan will be more affordable than the government's renewable
01:23energy policy.
01:25Our plan will cost a fraction of the government's $1.3 trillion plan.
01:29I figure not even the Prime Minister's cricket team of Labor spin doctors can conceal.
01:34The government says it's Mr Dutton who's spinning the numbers.
01:38Mr Dutton really should make clear where these numbers come from.
01:42We listen to the experts.
01:43The Australian energy market operator has costed what it will take to get us to 2050
01:48and the number they've come up with is $121 billion.
01:51In a potential glimpse of some of the tactics the Coalition may be considering using during
01:55the election campaign, the opposition leader and his deputy also wrapped up their attacks
02:00on the character of the Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese.
02:03He's a man with a mind still captured in his university years.
02:08He's a child in a man's body.
02:10We have a liar in the lodge and you cannot trust anything he says.
02:15Mr Dutton may wish to resort to personal attack but it is no substitute for actual policy.
02:21If today is any indication, the tone of the debate could be about to get much more personal.
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