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game meaning Peter Dutton FINALLY reveals costings of nuclear energy plan - and why he expects 'massive savings' for your power bill Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has unveiled nuclear costings By STEPHEN JOHNSON, ECONOMICS REPORTER FOR DAILY MAIL AUSTRALIA Published: 23:41 GMT, 12 December 2024 | Updated: 01:33 GMT, 13 December 2024 e-mail 186 View comments The Coalition says nuclear energy will be needed to stop blackouts and reduce energy bills as it unveiled a new energy plan that's much less reliant on renewables. Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has pledged to build seven publicly-owned nuclear power plants in Australia, with predictions the first will come online from the mid-to-late 2030s - a timeline the CSIRO has rubbished. He argued his $331billion plan will be 44 per cent cheaper than Labor's program to almost replace coal and gas-powered energy with wind and solar energy within 15 years. 'This is a plan that will underpin the economic success of our country for the next century,' he told reporters on Friday. Labor's plan is to have the grid firmed with 82 per cent renewable energy by 2030, rising to 98 per cent by 2040 based on solar and wind. Both sides of politics support a net zero by 2050 goal, but the Coalition sees nuclear power, gas and renewables meeting Australia's energy needs to achieve that target. 'We just can't pretend that we can have part-time power running a full-time economy,' Mr Dutton said. 'Australians are smarter than what the prime minister credits and Australians are well read, they understand what is happening internationally.' Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has pledged to build seven publicly-owned nuclear power plants across the country 'As coal retires from the system it should be replaced with zero emissions nuclear energy because nuclear is also an always on 24/7 source of energy and it’s going to be critical so that we get prices down and keep the lights on as we reach net zero.' Mr Dutton was confident Labor would support the Coalition's policies should Prime Minister Anthony Albanese lose next year's election , arguing it was hypocritical for the ALP to support nuclear-powered submarines as part of the AUKUS deal but be opposed to domestic nuclear power. Read More EXCLUSIVE Dick Smith warns Australia needs nuclear power NOW 'We have the situation here where I think it will be post-Anthony Albanese's leadership – which I don't think is too far away – in that scenario I think there can be bipartisan position in relation to the vision we put to the Australian people today,' he said. The Coalition's plan was modelled by Frontier Economics, which costed Labor's energy transition at $594billion, versus $331billion for the coalition's nuclear plan - marking a difference of $263billion. 'We've got a well thought-out plan here - we have the independent costings that provide that validation,' Mr Dutton said. 'This means reduced power bills for households, lower operating costs for small businesses, and a stronger, more resilient economy.' The report argued Labor's renewables-only plan would 'cost at least five times more than what Labor has told the Australian people'. 'This is likely an underestimate with the costs of transmission projects already blowing out by billions,' it said. The Coalition's proposal favours nuclear reactors across the nation But Energy Minister Chris Bowen has rubbished this number, saying the government's renewable energy plan would cost $122billion and not almost $600billion, citing a forecast made by the national energy grid operator. 'They're making it up as they go along,' Mr Bowen told ABC TV of the Coalition's costings on Friday. 'I'm not sure how they'll get the nuclear power into the grid, maybe by carrier pigeon if they're going to assert if somehow you'll need less transmission,' he said. 'They have had to make some very heroic assumptions here and they have had to really stretch the truth to try to get some very dodgy figures.' Keeping coal-fired power plants open beyond their lifespan was a threat to energy reliability, with outages and breakdowns happening on a daily basis, Mr Bowen said. 'It's a recipe for blackouts to keep ageing coal-fired power stations in the grid for longer,' he said. The Coalition's energy spokesman Ted O'Brien said Labor's renewables rollout was based on 'fantasy'. 'Our priority is to bring power prices down. That is why we can't shut down coal power plants prematurely,' he said. Nationals leader David Littleproud said no major advanced economy had embraced a renewables only policy. 'Understand the burden that you are asking us to bear. There is another way to achieve it,' he said. The Coalition faces opposition from states, which had legislated bans on nuclear energy, with its plan to turn coal-fired power stations into nuclear reactors in Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland. The CSIRO on Monday released a GenCost report suggesting establishing a nuclear energy industry in Australia would take at least 15 years - even though the United Arab Emirates did it in 2020 after eight years of work. It predicted that by 2030, larger-scale nuclear power could be generated at a cost of $150 to $245 a megawatt hour, compared with $121 to $164 for solar, and $67 to $137 for solar and wind. Nuclear power from small modular reactors, or SMRs, would cost $285 to $487 an hour, the report claimed. 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By JILL COLVIN NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump wants to turn the lights out on daylight saving time. In a post on his social media site Friday, Trump said his party would try to end the practice when he returns to office. “The Republican Party will use its best efforts to eliminate Daylight Saving Time, which has a small but strong constituency, but shouldn’t! Daylight Saving Time is inconvenient, and very costly to our Nation,” he wrote. Setting clocks forward one hour in the spring and back an hour in the fall is intended to maximize daylight during summer months, but has long been subject to scrutiny. Daylight saving time was first adopted as a wartime measure in 1942. Lawmakers have occasionally proposed getting rid of the time change altogether. The most prominent recent attempt, a now-stalled bipartisan bill named the Sunshine Protection Act , had proposed making daylight saving time permanent. The measure was sponsored by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio , whom Trump has tapped to helm the State Department. Related Articles National Politics | Ruling by a conservative Supreme Court could help blue states resist Trump policies National Politics | A nonprofit leader, a social worker: Here are the stories of the people on Biden’s clemency list National Politics | Nancy Pelosi hospitalized after she ‘sustained an injury’ on official trip to Luxembourg National Politics | Veteran Daniel Penny, acquitted in NYC subway chokehold, will join Trump’s suite at football game National Politics | About 3 in 10 are highly confident in Trump on Cabinet, spending or military oversight: AP-NORC poll “Changing the clock twice a year is outdated and unnecessary,” Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida said as the Senate voted in favor of the measure. Health experts have said that lawmakers have it backward and that standard time should be made permanent. Some health groups , including the American Medical Association and American Academy of Sleep Medicine, have said that it’s time to do away with time switches and that sticking with standard time aligns better with the sun — and human biology. Most countries do not observe daylight saving time. For those that do, the date that clocks are changed varies, creating a complicated tapestry of changing time differences. Arizona and Hawaii don’t change their clocks at all.ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Anaheim Ducks forward Trevor Zegras will be out for six weeks after undergoing surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee. Zegras had surgery Thursday, the team announced. on a fairly innocent-looking play during in Anaheim. Zegras and William Karlsson only briefly got their skates and stick blades entangled, but Zegras needed help to get off the ice after taking a fall. Zegras’ torn meniscus is his third major injury in just over a year, although a torn meniscus is likely a fortunate outcome for a knee injury that could have been much worse. He was limited to 31 games last season by two injury setbacks, including a broken ankle that required surgery. Zegras has four goals and six assists in 24 games this season for Anaheim, which had lost four straight heading into its road game against Toronto on Thursday night. The Ducks surprisingly activated forward Robby Fabbri from injured reserve before they faced the Maple Leafs. Fabbri had arthroscopic knee surgery on Nov. 15 and is progressing much faster than his initial predicted timeline of six to eight weeks. ___ AP NHL:

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ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) — Anaheim Ducks forward Trevor Zegras will be out for six weeks after undergoing surgery to repair a torn meniscus in his right knee. Zegras had surgery Thursday, the team announced. Zegras was injured last week on a fairly innocent-looking play during the Ducks' 4-1 loss to Vegas in Anaheim. Zegras and William Karlsson only briefly got their skates and stick blades entangled, but Zegras needed help to get off the ice after taking a fall. Zegras' torn meniscus is his third major injury in just over a year, although a torn meniscus is likely a fortunate outcome for a knee injury that could have been much worse. He was limited to 31 games last season by two injury setbacks, including a broken ankle that required surgery. Zegras has four goals and six assists in 24 games this season for Anaheim, which had lost four straight heading into its road game against Toronto on Thursday night. The Ducks surprisingly activated forward Robby Fabbri from injured reserve before they faced the Maple Leafs. Fabbri had arthroscopic knee surgery on Nov. 15 and is progressing much faster than his initial predicted timeline of six to eight weeks. AP NHL: https://apnews.com/NHLFrance's government is hanging by a thread as the far-right National Rally party threatens to bring down Prime Minister Michel Barnier's administration. National Rally's Marine Le Pen suggested Monday that talks with Barnier, aimed at extracting concessions on a tax-hiking 2025 French budget bill, had failed to produce an agreement. The government could be brought down by the left and right joining forces against an unpopular budget bill. If Barnier's government falls, France is looking at months of political and economic instability. France's government is hanging by a thread with the far-right National Rally party threatening to bring down Prime Minister Michel Barnier's administration by the end of the year. 24/7 San Diego news stream: Watch NBC 7 free wherever you are National Rally's figurehead Marine Le Pen suggested Monday that talks with Barnier, aimed at extracting concessions on a tax-hiking 2025 French budget bill, had failed to produce changes that would allow her party to approve the government's plans. "We will see if today's proposals are taken on board, but nothing is certain," Le Pen said Monday, in comments reported by the Associated Press. She was also reported to have reminded the prime minister of her party's "red lines," including its opposition to plans to raise electricity taxes and the delaying of increases to state pensions. "We said what were the non-negotiable elements for us," Le Pen said, AP added. "We are straight in our political approach. We defend the French people." Le Pen reportedly stated that if the government looks to force through the budget in December without the changes it wants, her National Rally party intends to support a confidence vote that the New Popular Front (NFP) alliance has already threatened. Money Report ‘Europe's Detroit' built a thriving car industry. Trump tariffs now threaten to unravel its success This personal finance educator says budgeting is ‘toxic' — try ‘intuitive' spending instead Over the next few weeks, the budget bill is expected to be shuffled between the Senate and National Assembly , where a majority of lawmakers have already rejected the bill in both its original, and subsequently amended, form. The original budget has now gone to the Senate for review and debate before it faces a final vote on Dec. 12. It must be passed by Dec. 21 . Barnier has signaled he could use special constitutional powers to circumvent a parliamentary vote and get the budget passed by presidential decree. That same rule — Article 49.3 of the French constitution — allows opponents to table a no-confidence motion, however, giving opposition parties on both the left and right the opportunity to bring down the government if they combine forces. Carsten Nickel, deputy director of research at risk consultancy Teneo, said much now depends on Le Pen's next steps. "While the [leftwing[ NFP will certainly table such a motion, the crucial actor remains Le Pen," he said in analysis last week. "So far, her RN [National Rally] had been expected to abstain. Letting the government survive and the budget pass would allow Le Pen to present herself as more responsible than the NFP. However, Le Pen's ongoing embezzlement trial threatens to unsettle this calculation." Le Pen and other key RN figures are currently on trial on charges of embezzling money from the European Parliament with fake jobs. Le Pen denies any wrongdoing but if found guilty, she could be jailed and banned from French politics for five years, putting a halt on her presidential ambitions for the 2027 elections. The trial adds a further element of uncertainty as to whether National Rally will follow through on its threat to topple Barnier's government. Doing so would certainly be a distraction for Le Pen, according to David Roche at Quantum Strategy, but it's uncertain whether she will want to be responsible for unleashing more political chaos and economic uncertainty for European Union's second-largest economy. France's political establishment has been in disarray since inconclusive parliamentary elections in the summer that saw both the rightwing RN and leftwing NFP win respective rounds of the vote. 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Read more Left and right prey on weak French government as it prepares ‘austerity’ budget Europe careens toward a downturn as its biggest economies fight crises at home From the far right to fiscal challenges, France could lurch from one crisis to another David Roche at Quantum Strategy said he believed the French government would "probably fall" in December but noted that no legislative elections can be held before June 2025, by law (that is, 12 months after the last vote called by Macron). "So Macron can leave Barnier in place at the head of a paralysed caretaker government (without a budget!) or appoint someone like the Governor of the Bank of France to head a totally passive government performing minimalist tasks until June" before "more elections and more instability," Roche said in emailed comments Tuesday. If the government does fall, Roche cautioned that "any idea that France will cut its deficit and debt is out of the window." 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Rogers Provides Update on Its Acquisition of Bell’s 37.5% Stake in MLSEAnd single people are more likely to use mobility tools compared to those who are married, according to researchers from University College London (UCL) and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). Researchers looked at information from a group of more than 12,000 adults in England aged 50 to 89 who were tracked over a 13-year period. At the start of the study, 8,225 adults had no mobility difficulty and did not use mobility assistive products (MAPs). Some 2,480 were deemed to have “unmet need” and 1,375 were using mobility aids. During the follow-up period, there were 2,313 “transitions” where people went from having no mobility issues to needing some help with getting around. And 1,274 people started to use mobility aids. Compared with men, women were 49% more likely to transition from not needing mobility aids to needing to use them, according to the study which has been published in The Lancet Public Health. But were 21% less likely to go on to use mobility aids when they needed them. The authors said their study showed “barriers to access” for women. For both men and women, with every year that passed during the study period the need for mobility aids increased. People who were older, less educated, less wealthy or reported being disabled were more likely to “transition from no need to unmet need, and from unmet need to use”, the authors said, with this indicating a “higher prevalence of mobility limitations and MAP need overall among these groups”. They added: “Finally, marital or partnership status was not associated with transitioning to unmet need; however, single people were more likely to transition from unmet need to use compared with married or partnered people.” Jamie Danemayer, first author of the study from UCL Computer Science and UCL’s Global Disability Innovation Hub, said: “Our analysis suggests that there is a clear gender gap in access to mobility aids. “Though our data didn’t ascertain the reason why participants weren’t using mobility aids, other research tells us that women are often more likely than men to face obstacles such as cost barriers as a result of well-documented income disparities between genders. “Many mobility aids are designed for men rather than women, which we think may be a factor. “Using mobility aids can also make a disability visible, which can impact the safety and stigma experienced by women, in particular. “There’s a critical need for further research to identify and break down the barriers preventing women from accessing mobility aids that would improve their quality of life.” Professor Cathy Holloway, also from UCL, added: “Not having access to mobility aids when a person needs one can have a big impact on their independence, well-being and quality of life. “Our analysis suggests that women, in particular, regardless of other factors such as education and employment status, are not getting the support that they need.” Professor Shereen Hussein, senior author of the study and lead of the social care group at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: “The research provides compelling evidence of gender disparities in accessing assistive technology, suggesting that cost, design bias, and social stigma are likely to disproportionally affect women. “This underscores the need for inclusive, gender-sensitive approaches in the design, production and inclusivity of assistive technologies.”

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