In a commentary piece, Sky News Australia political editor Peter van Onselen accuses Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of hypocrisy over nuclear policy, timed to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Australia. The author argues that Albanese has finalised a major deal to export Australian uranium to India — a country that has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty — while continuing to reject nuclear power as a domestic electricity source. Van Onselen contends this exposes a contradiction at the heart of Labor's energy policy.

According to the piece, Albanese is comfortable with nuclear energy in several forms: uranium mined in Australia to power India's growing economy, and nuclear-powered submarines crewed by Australian sailors under the AUKUS pact with the US and UK. The author claims the only nuclear application Labor deems unacceptable is generating electricity for Australian households, which he attributes to a reluctance to upset the party's left flank rather than any principled objection. He notes that India, a rising power seeking to cut its fossil fuel dependence, plans to expand its reliance on nuclear power, and that Australia's world-leading uranium deposits can support that ambition.