The Hon. Chris Bowen MPHome Events The Hon. Chris Bowen MP   
The Hon. Chris Bowen MP   
When
August 5, 2026
11:30 am - 1:30 pm

National Press Club Of Australia
16 National Circuit, Barton, Canberra, ACT, 2600
Event Type
Speakers
The Hon. Chris Bowen MP, Minister for Climate Change and Energy, will Address the National Press Club on “Energy Security in an Uncertain World”.

As Australia endures the second global energy crisis in the 2020s how can we fortify our grid and economy from uncertainty? Renewable energy is not only the lowest emissions form of energy and the cheapest, but also in many senses the most secure form of energy. As the Minister has said: the sun has to travel 150 million kilometres to get to the Earth, But it does not have to travel the 150 kilometres that are the Straits of Hormuz. With battery technology now hitting its stride, and Australia third in the world for storage uptake, we are seeing the transition’s promise begin to deliver – with declining wholesale prices and more households taking up renewables. Challenges remain, but this most recent disruption only underscores the need to keep going.

BIO

Chris grew up in Smithfield in Western Sydney, attending Smithfield Public School and St Johns Park High School. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Economics. He has also a Master’s Degree in International Relations and a Diploma in Modern Languages (Bahasa Indonesia). He joined the Labor Party in 1988 and was elected to Fairfield Council in 1995, serving as Mayor of Fairfield for 1998 and 1999. He also served as President of the Western Sydney Regional Organisation of Councils from 2000 to 2002. Chris entered Parliament in 2004 and has held a wide range of portfolios including serving as Treasurer, Minister for Human Services, Minister for Immigration, and Minister for Small Business. He is currently the Minister for Climate Change and Energy. Chris lives in Smithfield with his wife Rebecca, children Grace and Max and his Labradors Ollie and Toby and is a keen supporter of the GWS Giants.

Go to bed WhiteKnight. Its 3:30 am

Ai_Killed_Humanity wrote Yesterday at 7:30am:




See here:

https://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1519823686/0

A large scale working reactor is always another 5 years away.

Ai_Killed_Humanity wrote Yesterday at 7:48am:



Read the whole thread -

the last post was  May 12th, 2025.

It has been going for 8 years because I have followed this subject for that long.

2 megawatts is tiny -
large coal power stations have 1000 mega watt turbines
and many have 3 or more of them.

forgiven

namaste

Ai_Killed_Humanity wrote Yesterday at 8:55am:



Master Light taught me to say that when I forgive others.

Frank wrote Yesterday at 11:21am:


Oz doesn't need nuclear power, because we are 27 million people living in a sunny country ranked 6th in land area globally.

The problem is the mainstream belief that currency-issuing governments need  'taxpayer money' to fund the transition to green - and taxpayers don't want to fund the transition.

 

thegreatdivide wrote Yesterday at 12:13pm:



The problems are energy density, intermittency and storage.

thegreatdivide wrote Yesterday at 12:13pm:




Whatever the topic you have a ready answer. Always the same ready answer.


The word is - MONOMANIA.

get it checked out, parrot.