It's day two on the campaign trail and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton is expected to continue to push his energy policy about gas and nuclear. His campaign continues after hecklers disrupted two of his events yesterday in his home city of Brisbane where the Coalition is looking to reassert its presence.
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00:00Opposition leader Peter Dutton will continue to sell his nuclear and gas pitch to voters
00:08today as his team tightens security after two climate protesters crash separate campaign
00:14events.
00:15Two women from Climate Action Group Rising Tide managed to evade security and get into
00:20the tightly controlled events in the marginal Brisbane seats of Ryan and Morton by posing
00:25as journalists.
00:27The protest not partisan though, the same Climate Action Group targeted treasurer Jim
00:32Chalmers during a speech more than a week ago.
00:35Energy is becoming a key political flashpoint in the campaign and comes as the opposition
00:40leader pledges to reduce power bills via his plan to keep more gas in the Australian market.
00:46Anthony Albanese promised to reduce power bills by $275 at the last election and it's
00:52a promise that's followed him ever since.
00:55Peter Dutton hasn't explained how his plan will reduce energy bills but says details
01:01on that modelling is forthcoming.