"This region's been built on coal."
"The coal workers and the community have been used as toys in a game backwards and forwards where neither party has been able to commit to energy policy."
"And then I moved to Latrobe Valley, and I just got hit with this like visceral wall of resistance and hatred and ridicule."
"I think we're doing a great job working on renewables already country wide and I don't see why we would suddenly switch and put a reactor so close to where people live,"she said.
"We've still got coal, but they're shutting down all the power stations, so we need to fill that void somehow and I don't think solar or wind power is going to do that."
"You always need a mix, because if one's not working, the other one will."