Dan Repacholi, the supposed “unbiased” Chair of the House Select Committee on Nuclear Energy, has proven once again he’s anything but impartial. Instead of engaging in a substantive debate, Repacholi hit social media with a meme that would make a high schooler blush, followed by a tirade of cherry-picked talking points that amount to little more than scaremongering.
Repacholi’s diatribe claims Peter Dutton’s nuclear power proposal would cost households an extra $1200 annually—a figure seemingly plucked from thin air and attributed to so-called “experts” without any names or studies cited. Repacholi goes on to dismiss nuclear energy entirely, despite its proven track record of delivering reliable, zero-emission power in countries like France and Canada.
What Repacholi conveniently ignores is that Australia faces skyrocketing energy bills and an unstable grid under his government’s obsession with unreliable renewables. Nuclear power offers a solution to both issues, but instead of doing his job as Chair of the Nuclear Energy Committee, Repacholi parrots anti-nuclear rhetoric straight out of the Labor Party’s playbook.
This isn’t about cost or feasibility—Repacholi’s attack is about politics. He and Labor are terrified of losing their stranglehold on the energy debate, knowing full well that Australians are waking up to the reality that their policies are driving prices up and jobs out.
If Repacholli had any integrity, he’d focus on presenting facts, not memes and fear campaigns. Instead, his actions reveal him as a partisan hack, unfit to lead any committee—let alone one that’s supposed to guide Australia’s energy future.