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"Opposition Leader Peter Dutton’s plan to build seven nuclear power plants in
Australia has attracted plenty of critical attention. But there’s a striking
feature which has received relatively little discussion or criticism: the
nuclear plants would be publicly owned and operated, similar to the National
Broadband Network (NBN).
On the contrary, it received enthusiastic endorsement from free-market
advocates such as
The Australian’s Judith Sloan, who observed: “It’s how the
French nuclear plants were first constructed.” It is also the way Australia
built its biggest single piece of energy infrastructure, the Snowy Mountains
Scheme.
But there’s a fundamental problem here. Over the last three or four decades the
federal public service has been hollowed out in the name of “new public
management”. This became very clear during the COVID pandemic, when state
governments – who have preserved their ability to act far better – ran most of
the response. There is a very real question over whether we have the
governmental capacity to achieve net zero."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
