Peter Dutton and nuclear power
This letter is principally for Jim Coombs, author of the above article.
Peter Dutton doesn’t really want nuclear power for Australia. It’s just another wedge for Anthony Albanese, like Scott Morrison’s original AUKUS deal. Dutton wants to keep coal-fired power stations operating as long as possible, kowtowing to the coal industry and his Coalition climate change ignorants
But he has to be seen to be on board with renewables and non-polluting electricity generation to win any support from the electorate. One of his advisers must have said, “what about nuclear Dutto; ticks all your boxes; Albo couldn’t be seen to oppose this one; you’ll have him wedged”. “Yeah”, says Dutto, “good one. Let’s announce it right away and seem him try and crawl out of that”.
The worst of it is that Albanese and Labor wasted so much time logically refuting it while Dutton never really had a clue what nuclear energy was all about and had moved on to his next brain emission: no refugees from Gaza.
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