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Voters spoilt for choice: Peter Albanese or Anthony Dutton

By Stephen Saunders - posted Wednesday, 15 January 2025


Labor-Greens advocate virtuous (UN/OECD/IMF troika) renewables with Liberal baddies going nuclear.

About 30 nations operate 400-plus nuclear power plants worldwide, US and China being top generators. France is 70% nuclear, though the waste backstory worries.

Australia could do nuclear – if preferring the industry's rosy picture to national CSIRO's anointing of renewables.

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But we're mediocre infrastructure builders. "Externalities" from resource mining, power plants, waste disposal, might descend unfairly, including on Indigenous lands.

Unlike Qatar/Norway, Liberal/Labor siphon the resource booty off to rent-seekers ahead of voters. Nuclear, unlikely as it is to happen, would be another rent-seeker pile-on.

For reliability of electricity supply, maybe Liberals should stick to their "gas-fired recovery" trope, with less of the "dramatically" increasing supply.

Eighty percent-export gas-cartel is bad enough, with gleeful trading "partners" on-selling gas imported from dozy Australia. Soon, they'll sell it back to us.

Suits troika. Not a shot fired, they've replaced our fair-go with UN social-justice creed:

Population growth + renewables growth = environment-repair + net-zero.

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