March 18, 2025
A group of disgruntled Liberal Party supporters has launched a lobby group which hopes to persuade the party to abandon its nuclear energy policy so it can have a chance to win power at the upcoming Federal Election.
“Liberals Against Nuclear” unveiled its advertising campaign this week against the pro-nuclear policy which suggests seven nuclear power generation plants could be built in Australia, including at Tarong in the South Burnett.
“Nuclear power is the big road block preventing the Liberals getting to the Lodge,” a spokesperson for the group, former director of the Tasmanian Liberal Party Andrew Gregson, said.
“This is big government waste that betrays Liberal values, splits the party, and hands government back to Labor. It’s time for our party to dump nuclear.
“This policy contradicts core Liberal principles by requiring tens of billions in government borrowing, swelling the bureaucracy, and imposing massive taxpayer-backed risk.”
“As John Howard said: ‘For Liberals the role of government should be strategic and limited’.
“Yet this nuclear policy gives us bigger government, higher taxes to pay for it, more debt, and less freedom as the state takes over energy production.”
The group fears the nuclear policy is driving “free market and middle-ground” voters towards the Teals and other Independents in must-win seats.
It claims that recent polling shows just 35 per cent of Australians support nuclear energy, with support collapsing once voters understand the policy details.
“We’re trying to save the party from a policy that will gift seats to their opponents,” Mr Gregson said.
“Nuclear technology itself isn’t the issue – it’s the socialist implementation being proposed that trashes Liberal values. If nuclear energy is so good, then the market will back it without massive government intervention.”
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