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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was in Perth to announce with WA Premier Roger Cook major funding for redevelopment of St John of God Midland Hospital. Picture: Jason Edwards/NewsWire,

“No, they won’t be delayed by that. They’ll be considered in accordance with the law,” said Mr Albanese.

“But I make this point, for people who haven’t followed perhaps the details of the way that the law works in (Mr Dutton) declaring, and pre-empting an announcement and a decision on the North West Shelf.”

The context here is that Mr Dutton has promised to fast-track the project by approving it within 30 days of taking office, should he win the election.

“There is no conceivable reason as to why approval can’t be given,” Mr Dutton said at one of his press conferences.

The fear, here is that by declaring a decision on the matter before taking power Mr Dutton was risking legal action that would actually slow down the project.

“What he is doing is ensuring that it gets delayed,” said Mr Albanese.

“The former government did the same thing with Pep 11, the exploration licences off the coast of NSW.

“By pre-empting it, it meant that it got delayed and took a long period of time. Eventually, (Labor) minister (Ed) Husic was given responsibility for it, in accordance with the law, and that issue is now settled.

“If you go out there and you pre-empt the law, which says that consideration must be given objectively by the minister, then you by definition put yourself in a position of legal challenge.

“What would happen would be, there would be a legal challenge. Frankly, you could get any lawyer at random, pick them out, and they could win that case, because it is shut, a shut case. It is not sensible to do so, for an alternative prime minister.

“There are so many ways in which the alternative government of this country shows that it is not ready to form government. What this shows is they need more time.”


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The Prime Minister misspoke while trying to make it clear that he would not be negotiating with the Greens if he needs them to form government. Picture: Jason Edwards/newsWire

Albo warning on Coalition energy funding

Mr Albanese managed to link his announcement of the day – funding for a hospital upgrade – to that entirely different issue.

He characterised Peter Dutton’s Coalition as one “that will cut Medicare as sure as night follows day, because they’ve got to find $600m for their nuclear fantasy, including a nuclear power plant down there in Collie”.

“He hasn’t actually bothered to visit that site up close,” Mr Albanese said.

“If he did, he would see what is the real future of energy in Western Australia, which is renewables backed by gas, backed by firming capacity, including batteries that are being built there on site to connect up with the transmission lines that are currently used by the coal-fired power plant, which we could close this decade.”

Energy policy popped up again a few minutes later, as a journalist asked Mr Albanese about Woodside’s North West Shelf gas project.

“Do you believe that the North West Shelf gas project should be extended, and will approvals to that project be further delayed by Labor’s plans?” the reporter asked.