How can Australians trust the energy debate when the government is helping to pay the journalists reporting on its own policies? Meanwhile, nuclear power remains prohibited under federal law, and Labor’s national platform commits the party to keeping it so. Since the grant began, Crikey has described nuclear as a $600-billion ‘nuclear power fantasy’. Another article said advocates had ‘brazenly’ proposed nuclear power for data centres. Its article ‘Half-price power: record renewables push prices down’ quoted Bowen saying the figures proved renewables could reduce electricity bills.